“She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.”

“They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.”

“She didn't like to be alone. Even more, she didn't like being with people. (148)”

“She was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.”

“Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she'd had an impact. She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.”

“He was the one she was doing all this for, but sometimes she missed him so much it felt like she swallowed broken glass.”

“Off she'd go to the hospital, a place I believe she secretly liked because they treat you like a child there.”

“When Agatha already felt like she was dying, for a second she thought about turning him into a eunuch for life, in self-defense, she would argue.”

“Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.”

“And she felt as though she had been there, on that bench, for an eternity. For an infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.”