Shirley Marr Quotes

#1. You don't give your mum enough credit for raising you, Elle. Look at you. Teenage sweetheart with a sugar shell and strychnine centre. We might as well finish speaking the truth now.

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#2. Neil once told me you had to become a monster so that you didn't become the victim of one instead. I don't care what anyone says. I believe him.

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#3. If you're hoping to party like it's 1999 because Prince told you the world was going to end in 2000, then I'm sorry to disappoint you. We're still here.

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#4. My uniform felt like a costume. I put on a fresh coat of black nail polish. I twisted up a tube of Revlon Red and put my war paint on. I sharpened the tips of my Fierce Words so they were like a row of shiny arrows.

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#5. I want to grow up and do something cool with my life, such as build an orphanage in a third world country like all those saintly Hollywood celebrities. That or, like, cause a scandal and become mega-famous.

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#6. So it is just you and your friends then."

"Yes. Is that so hard to believe?" Is it because we're girls? I want to say. You think a bunch of girls are not capable of something like this?

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#7. You're so mean,' I said. 'You're like one of those people who upload pictures of themselves where they look really hot and the other person looks like shit.

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#8. Neil said to me once that in times of desperation, you have to force yourself to make a decision.

It's your choice, he said. Us or them. So choose.

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#9. I grabbed Lexi's tousled head and kissed her hair. She smelt like John-Paul Gaultier and blood.

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#10. There is no ending to this story because, as I've realised, stories don't have endings, only beginnings.

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#11. I swapped my heart for a bargaining chip a long time ago. And here I am turning it over and over again in my hand, not sure what to trade it in for.

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#12. What the hell. Was he going to bring out a gramophone or Morse code machine too?

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#13. I walked up to the window, raised my palm and pressed it against the pane. It left a bloodied handprint. Through the red shape - my red flag, my riot sign - I could see Neil staring at me.

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