"The worst thing, I gathered, the worst thing that could happen in this life was to have people laughing at you."
"She believed in burglars."
"Well groomed girls frightened me to death. I didn't like to even go near them, for fear I would be smelly. I felt there was a radical difference, between them and me, as if we were made of different substances."
Adult Summer Reading Club - A Banned or Challenged Book
