"I called the last few words out in the direction Miss Perfidy had gone. She often stalked off when I was in the middle of a sentence. It didn't encourage many heartfelt confidences."
Chap. 1, p. 10

"I do not live anywhere anymore, I said to myself on one of my walks down to the pier to wait for my parents. I am not in the body of life. I hover on the extremities. I float."
Chap. 1, p. 20

"'Now, that's true love and it's rare as rare can be. Most of the kids in this town don't have two parents ... they got one dead one and one alive one. Or they got two divorced ones who don't talk to each other. Or they've got a mom and a bird-of-the-night dad who sang one sweet song and never appeared again.'"
Chap. 2, p. 24

"Being together, like being able to see certain...