She smiled with a scary energy, as if she had been told to at gunpoint. - Helen Oyeyemi

With boys there was a fundamental assumption that they had a right to be there—not always, but more often than not. With girls, Why her? came up so quickly.

A library at night is full of sounds: the unread books can't stand it any longer and announce their contents, some boasting, some shy, some devious.

If you should find yourself in a place that is indifferent to you and there is someone there that your spirit stretches to, then that person is kin.