"It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that…"

"“We’ll have fun without you”"

"The flagpole that had flown at half-mast the day Cecilia died, though it had been summer and no one but the lawn crew…"

"Everybody had a story as to why she tried to kill herself. Mrs. Buell said the parents were to blame. "That girl didn…"

"The small statue of a girl… donated in memory of Laura White, her bronze skirt just beginning to oxidize. Scars cross…"

"“I knew I had to close that window or else she’d go on jumping out of it forever.”"

"A series of dissolves, their house, street, city, country, and finally planet, which not only dwarfs but obliterates …"

"The girls were right in choosing to love Trip, because he was the only boy who could keep his mouth shut."

"We realised that the version of the world they had rendered for us was not the world they really believed in, and tha…"

"We realized that our fathers, brothers and uncles had been lying, and that .no one was ever going to love us for our …"