No one called out my name. Finally, I went to open the door. I could smell burning metal.

“He spoke with a raven's voice, old and wise and far above the cruelty of the hu…”

“Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.”

“She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It …”

“I could hardly get a boy to look at me. All right, they'd look, they'd even tak…”