"You know, Lucy, I liked you a lot better before you got all punk" (Chapter 2, p. 10).

"Maybe I'll get an armlet. A chain design wrapped around my arm. You know-to symbolize my enslavement" (Chapter 12, p. 92).

"Insight, crisis, eruption. You are entering a period of great change" (Chapter 16, p. 128).

"Maybe she doesn't know how to act, so she sticks a turkey bone in her nostril and acts pissed off. I've been there. Only without the bone" (Chapter 14, p. 104).

"I'm talking about the poses we adopt. Why do you believe you embrace the goth lifestyle" (Chapter 25, p. 202).

"Every time you visited the chat room you revealed yourself" (Chapter 25, p. 203).

"It's not my behavior that's bothering them. It's who I am" (Chapter 19, p. 147).

"Everything they know about who you are is based on what you do" (Chapter 19, p. 147).

"'Be nice,' I tell him. 'It belongs to a good friend of...