Reconstructing Amelia

by Kimberly McCreight

Clothes were to Sylvia what books were to me: the only thing that really mattered.

I might have been a better student, and a better athlete. But Sylvia had always been way better at being herself.

She had a wildness tucked inside her that made her seem fun and unpredictable and just a little tiny bit dangerous. Of course, it was also the exact same thing that eventually ended up driving the boys away. After all, there’s a fine line between wild and full-on whack job.

Sometimes it’s hard to tell how fast the current’s moving until you’re headed over a waterfall.”

‘What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil,’ ”