Kelli

“I wondered what the value was, in the Darwinian sense, of making fast friends like that. There must be some scientific significance to being a follower, to allowing yourself to be persuaded by personality”
― Hilary Thayer Hamann, Anthropology of an American Girl

“Optimism is when you're not sure where life is going to take you, so naturally you anticipate the best possible outcome”
― Hilary Thayer Hamann, Anthropology of an American Girl

“...she acknowledged each person's nearness to the dead and helped the group in its struggle for order-who grieved most, whose pain was most real-because in life there is always hierarchy, and it is frankly not profitable to remain modest and anonymous, not even at a funeral.”
― Hilary Thayer Hamann, Anthropology of an American Girl

“They were sorting, or classifying. It's easy-anyone dressed funny is the enemy, especially if they reject your supremacy or do not acknowledge school as entertainment. If the enemy tries to look like you and act like you, only in more affordable clothes, that person is still the enemy, only of a more contemptible, less terrifying variety-”
― Hilary Thayer Hamann, Anthropology of an American Girl