Rowan

“You're perfect just the way you are...is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.”
― Libba Bray, Beauty Queens

“There had been something about the island that made the girls forget who they had been. All those rules and shalt nots. They were no longer waiting for some arbitrary grade. They were no longer performing. Waiting. Hoping. They were becoming. They were.”
― Libba Bray, Beauty Queens

“I've been thinking about that book about the boys who crash on the island....Lord of the Flies what about it....You know how you said it wasn't a true measure of humanity since there were no girls and you wondered how it would be different if there had been girls...Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's watching them so they can be who they really are.”
― Libba Bray, Beauty Queens

“The hand you hold the longest is your own.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing