"What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love?…"

"My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it."

"Severity is in the eye of the sufferer, it says. Pain is pain."

"After a few weeks of this she'd spend a whole day weeping, beating at herself as if on fire."

"Betraying her class and origin with the heartbreaking openness Joelle's always viewed as either terribly stupid or te…"

"There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so we…"

"'You know what your problem is, Hallie?' 'I have just one problem?'"

"Then Thursday Coyle had his left wrist tied to his right ankle and was still beating this new kid Stockhausen until S…"

"They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier."

"These worst mornings with cold floors and hot windows and merciless light—the soul’s certainty that the day will have…"