Oh: the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen in my life. It’s me. I’m the girl.
-- Georgia (Prologue)

Importance: When Georgia sees her erotic photographs for the first time, she delights in her own image. This quote is important because it highlights Georgia's vanity

There are stories about her, but people are always careful in their retellings, just in case Justin James ever finds out who’s been saying what about his baby girl. Ashley James: a wild little thing. Ashley James: paints ten years onto her face every day and sneaks out every night. Ashley James: always on the lookout for the kind of trouble she one day won’t be able to get herself out of. Ashley James: dead. God.
-- Georgia (Prologue)

Importance: Ashley James is only 13 when she is murdered, but the town talks about her as if she brought upon her own death through her "bad behavior." This quote...