Quinn Hunt: Main character, seventeen years old. She's surrounded by strong women who tell cautionary tales of heartbreak. She describes herself as a 'nice' person, who makes the 'good' choices. She's a good person, one who would feel guilty if 'i took more than one cookie from the cookie jar.' Even though Quinn is aware of her father's selfish behavior, she'd rather not look too closely, because for her, she couldn't imagine a life without her father. For whatever reason, there is an unmistakable need for acceptance from her father. She denies all his faults. Quinn also has a strong relationship with her little sister, Charlotte (Sprout).
“Any strange guy comes up to you and kisses you while you're sleeping, man, you call the police.”
“And what about the big daddy of them all, Prince Charming? What was his secret life?”
“I felt the sort of low, vague pissed-off that could turn global. You know, where you get a paper cut and curse not only the paper but paper factories and the paper factory workers and pulp mills and trees.”
“Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.”
“It was amazing, when you thought about it, how much of love, before and after, was about avoiding humiliation.”
“The truest thing about truth was that it needed to be seen no mater what it was and no matter how it came to you.”
“To be devastated, or to let the truth in, finally, finally, all the way, all the way, all the way, until it fills you with its own strength, with its own knowledge--that love is light and not darkness, that love that is not good is not worthy of you, that love can only truly be given by those who are able, those with hearts of quality and with careful hands.”
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