Story of a Girl Quotes

Speaking of savages, Bruce Cowell and his pack of jock-wannabes, who'd been kicked off every school team because of attitude problems and/or the use of illegal substances, were right on schedule fo...

The bus heaved to a halt at my stop, the stop I'd been getting off at my whole life, in front of a mold-gray house a few doors down from ours, with five cars parked on the lawn – cars that had be...

He's laid-back. He's loyal. He gets it. In fact, the only thing wrong with Jason is that, at the time, he happened to be the boyfriend of my other best friend, Lee. (1.37)

I was thirteen when my dad caught me with Tommy Webber in the back of Tommy's Buick. (Prologue.1)

My mom is hardly ever home because of working so much and I don't think Dad has touched me since puberty, even before Tommy. Lee's mom […] hugs me more than anyone in my own family. (2.44)

[…] and in my head I wrote the story of a girl who surfed the cold green ocean, when one day she started paddling in the wrong direction and didn't know it until she looked back and couldn't see...

"Why do you front, Lambert? Why pretend you're not a skank when you know you are?" (1.18)

She pulled me along past the boarded-up stationery store, and the shoe place that had been having a going-out-of-business sale since I was in sixth grade. (2.68)