"Collin and I talked like we had known each other forever, and I, who have always felt uneasy with boys, felt completely comfortable and comforted" (April, pg. 6.)

"Dear Collin. You are my dearest confidant, my valiant hero, my trusted friend, my future! Literally my happy, happy, forever future" (April, pg. 12.)

"I even bit him...but he...raped me-NO, NO, he didn't." (April, pg. 24.)

"I'm just an empty box of loneliness" (April, pg. 27.)

"Margie is two years younger than I am and only in seventh grade, just one year out of grade school...she's a baby. Surely Collin wouldn't...but something deep, deep inside tells me he would" (May, pg. 45.)

"Parents don't seem to realize that when they divorced each other, they divorce their kids too" (June, pg. 54.)

"The Beginning of a Future that is Going to be More Glorious than has ever been Known by Mankind since the...