take words and make them useful,' she told me. 'drain them of all the crappy meanings they used to mean and make them mean something useful instead.

“IN MY SO-CALLED CAREER, I'VE OFTEN WRITTEN THINGS THAT I VAINLY THOUGHT WERE IN…”

“The body, I have often thought, is like a promise. You keep things in it. Those…”

“I try to tell the teacher, you know. I don't give a fuck about geometry or Engl…”

“We all like to think we'll grow up,' Beatrice said. 'History's the one dream we…”