“My father’s release date was given to all the local cops, school administrators, and youth group leaders.” — Laura Wiess Father Copy Share Image
“We mutinied quietly, using every lesson we’d been taught by every person who’d ever used us for their own benefit.” — Laura Wiess Lesson Copy Share Image
“Ignorance of the outcome doesn't exempt you from the consequences.” — Laura Wiess Consequences Copy Share Image
“Why should I just sit around hoping it happens when maybe I can do something to make it happen?” — Laura Wiess Copy Share Image
“It's just that instead of erupting and annihilating our tormentors, we destroy ourselves instead.” — Laura Wiess Pain Copy Share Image
“There are only the three of us and our dark, burgeoning desires I am so afraid of what comes next” — Laura Wiess Copy Share Image
“Oh, there's a wholesome outing.' I say. 'Let's all skip down to the cop shop to register my daddy as a pervert.… — Laura Wiess Copy Share Image
“We're not afraid of the dark. Our nightmares were born on sultry, summer afternoons.” — Laura Wiess Dark Copy Share Image
“He shook his head and gave this laugh, a good laugh, and just looked at me. "You always this happy?" "No," I… — Laura Wiess Copy Share Image
“My mother plants her hands on her hips, peevish. “Is that the best welcome you can come up with? Why don’t you… — Laura Wiess Mother Copy Share Image
“There are worse things in life to be than fat, and one of them is ignorant. Another is prejudiced. Another is deliberately… — Laura Wiess Copy Share Image
“Meredith's a big girl. She knows how babies are made, don't you, Mer?" I nod, numb and weary. "'Course I do. Same… — Laura Wiess Meredith Copy Share Image
“That's what innocence is, you know. A blissful oblivion of what's coming, of what you'll lose and what you'll gain, and what… — Laura Wiess Blissful Copy Share Image
“Yeah, I know I've changed. Nothing gets to me anymore. Well, okay, except for stuff in the past. Back then I was… — Laura Wiess Copy Share Image
“After school I all but ran to Gran's and it was funny how even with her so sick, being with her could… — Laura Wiess Copy Share Image
“What’s the point of obsessing over cholesterol or bike helmets or even cigarettes when the biggest threats to our children are being… — Laura Wiess Copy Share Image
“Time is not your friend. It doesn't care if you live fast or die slow, if you are or if you aren't.… — Laura Wiess Friendship Copy Share Image
“We wait to be rescued, but for whatever reason, no one comes. We figure that if no one protects us then we… — Laura Wiess Dogs Copy Share Image
“If I allow my gaze to travel higher-which I won't-I'll see the solid gold basketball charm on a chain that my mother… — Laura Wiess Charm Copy Share Image
“What's the point of obsessing over cholesterol or bike helmets or even cigarettes when the biggest threats to our children are being… — Laura Wiess Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow belongs to betrayal. Today is mine and I don't want to waste it being afraid.” — Laura Wiess Betrayal Copy Share Image
“And of how we never really know someone, no matter how much we want to believe that we do.” — Laura Wiess Copy Share Image
“The ache starts in my chest and spreads through my veins. The abuse I can handle; it's the happiness that cripples.” — Laura Wiess Abuse Copy Share Image
“All emotion receded, pulled out like low tide, leaving my brain an empty ocean bottom” — Laura Wiess Emotion Copy Share Image
“And I don't want to hurt anymore. I want to be someone who makes it through” — Laura Wiess Copy Share Image
“In my family, you can rot to hell on the inside as long as you’re flawless on the outside, which is really… — Laura Wiess Abuse Copy Share Image
“You can't come wandering around in at all hours of the night looking like you've been-" "Raped?" "Not to worry, Estertown's been… — Laura Wiess Copy Share Image
“The weight in my pocket nudges my thigh, suddenly becomes my knife. I put my hand to its unforgiving outline and can't… — Laura Wiess Copy Share Image
“No," I shout, because my mother doesn't know what I like anymore. "I don't eat things that bleed. Just cheese with lettuce… — Laura Wiess Copy Share Image
“I tore the crusts off my grilled cheese sandwich and set them aside to throw out for the birds. Their motives were… — Laura Wiess Grilled cheese Copy Share Image
“I know the grim probability of my own future. The odds are high that the best of me has already been ripped… — Laura Wiess Time Copy Share Image
I don't know how you say good-bye to whom and what you love. I don't know a painless way to do it,… — Laura Wiess Bye love Copy Share Image
