I was serious. I really, really wanted to kiss someone. I wanted to feel a little bit of prom-night magic.
-- Narrator (Part 1: “Last Chance”)

Importance: Georgia tells Pip that she wants to kiss someone the night of their after prom party. She believes it will cement the magic of the evening. When Georgia is actually faced with kissing someone, however, she is disgusted by the idea of carrying through with her fantasy.

I was going to university soon. A chance to reinvent myself and become someone who could fall in love, someone who would fit in with my family, with people my age, with the world.
-- Narrator (Part 1: “Loveless”)

Importance: After Georgia discovers her strange aversion to kissing the boy on whom she believed she had a crush, she decides that there might be something different about her. Georgia calms her fear by assuring herself that in college she can reinvent herself into a person who has lots of...