“We'd never talked about it, but I figured you knew the rules. If a cop stopped, you didn't run, you didn't talk back, you didn't ever, ever get angry. White people could do that—hell, they could shoot up a church… — Una LaMarche Copy Share Image
“The way you act can sometimes be totally different from the way you actually are.” — Una LaMarche Copy Share Image
“We'd never talked about it, but I figured you knew the rules. If a cop stopped, you didn't run, you didn't talk back, you… — Una LaMarche Copy Share Image
“You can’t worry so much about the future. It’s coming, it’s gonna happen, and it’ll be beautiful and terrible but everything will be OK.” — Una LaMarche Copy Share Image
“But one of the cruelties of teenagehood is that you’ll never know what your parents were really like at your age, and they’ll never… — Una LaMarche Copy Share Image
“In every dance movie ever made—and I knew because I’d seen them all at least ten times—the two leads fall in love.” — Una LaMarche Copy Share Image
“Plus, he was funny, with that almost imperceptible edge of sadness that's like catnip to anyone with a double-X chromosome. Throughout our years of… — Una LaMarche Copy Share Image
“This was the kind of guy who should be someone's first love. Someone who brought you flowers and refilled your water glass without your… — Una LaMarche Copy Share Image
