“For a moment I was captivated as I studied them side by side.
My mother: the perfect picture of guardian excellence and decorum.
My father: always capable of achieving his goals no matter how twisted the means.
Uneasily, I began to understand how I’d inherited my bizarre personality.”
- Page 227
“He’s out of line! He has no right to threaten my boyfriends. I’m eighteen. An adult. I dont need his help. I can threaten my boyfriends myself.”
-Page 39
“No one had ever called me unnatural before, except for the time I put ketchup on a taco. But seriously, we’d been out of salsa, so what else was I supposed to do?”
-page 38
“What else would I do today?”
“I could think of a hundred other things. There’s probably a John Wayne movie on somewhere that you haven’t seen.”
“No, there isn’t. I’ve seen them all.”
- Chapter Nine
“Rose only hangs out with guys and psychopaths,”
“Well, since I’m both a psychopath and a guy, that would explain why we’re such good friends.”
- Chapter Ten
“Like beating-her-up kinds of things.”
“Oh God. That’s horrible. And she…she just let it happen?
“She did. But I didn’t.”
“Tell me, tell me you beat the crap out of him.”
His smile grew “I did.”
- Chapter Thirteen
