This murdered girl troubles me. After the first shock, nobody at school says much about her. Even Cordelia does not want to talk about her. It’s as if this girl has done something shameful, herself, by being murdered.

Men such as him do not have to clean up the messes they make, but we have to clean up our own messes, and theirs into the bargain.

It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.

Condoms seemed to her inherently wicked. But they were also inherently funny. They were like rubber gloves with only one finger, and every time she saw one she had to be severe with herself or she’d get the giggles, a terrifying thought because the man might think you were laughing at him, at his dick, at its size, and that would be fatal.

Gender roles suck," says Swift Fox.Then you should stop playing them, thinks Toby.

I felt confused, and also inadequate; whatever he was asking or demanding, it was beyond me. this was the first time a man would expect more from me than i was capable of giving, but it wouldn't be the last.

My self is a thing that I must now compose...as one composes a speech. What I must present is a 'made' thing. Not something born.

We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print.

I could do a good imitation of a competent young woman.