"The worst offense a Bleak Creek youth could commit: failing to show proper reverence for the institutions the town held so dear. And, in a sick twist of fate, because their stunt had rudely interrupted a prayer during a pig pickin', they had simultaneously dishonored the town's most sacred deities, God and pork. Double whammy."

"But what I'm thinking in this moment is: none of us really get to have our own, separate lives. Our lives are always all horribly tangled up with the people around us. The people we love."

A great book, but the ending was a little cheesy for my taste.

"I remind myself I am no longer the girl I was before. I might be surrounded, but that doesn't mean I'm powerless."