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“It's hard to keep a secret when it's written all over your body... ”
― Julia Hoban, Willow

“...if this is not a happy ending, it is perhaps a happy beginning.”
― Julia Hoban, Willow

“Well, sometimes I worry that my whole life will be based about what's comfortable and easy. I'll care too much about what makes me feel good to ever really reach for anything. And then I worry that even if I do, I won't succeed.”
― Julia Hoban, Willow

“If she let herself, she’d drown in a world of pain”
― Julia Hoban, Willow

“I just figured out why someone would want to make the first mirror... I think some lover wanted his beloved to see how she appeared to him. He wanted her to be able to see herself the way that he did.”
― Julia Hoban, Willow

“If you go, then I'll miss you.. terribly”
― Julia Hoban, Willow

“I guess what scares me the most now is the thought that I won't be able to protect you”
― Julia Hoban, Willow

“I need a Kleenex.” She sniffs.
Guy disengages his hands from hers, takes the hem of his
sweatshirt, and wipes her nose with it.
“That’s romantic,” she says, embarrassed.
“Well, it is sort of, because I wouldn’t do it for anybody else
in the world.”
― Julia Hoban, Willow

“If it all looks good on the surface, I'll know I've failed at life”
― Julia Hoban, Willow

“You couldn't really say that something that hurts so badly feels good exactly. It's more that it just feels right. And something that feels so right just couldn't be bad. It has to be good.”
― Julia Hoban, Willow

“We'd already talked in the stacks, and I knew you were different from any other girl I'd met. And you told me that your parents were dead, and I thought that you were so . . . lost and vulnerable. So when I saw you in the physics lab . . . and I saw you try and take care of someone that you thought who had been through what you'd been through; could be that . . . well, generous, and thoughtfull . . ." Guy said.
"But you hardly knew me." said Willow
"I know . . . I didn't know that we'd even talk again, or that if we did, if we'd get along, or maybe you were seeing someone else . . . I just knew that the way you tried to protect someone's life that, especially given your situation . . . I just . . . I though that you had to be the most special girl I would ever meet . . .”
― Julia Hoban, Willow

“It's hard to keep something a secret when it's written all over you body.”
― Julia Hoban, Willow

“Willow sees her before any of the others. A walking skeleton, the victim of some terrible wasting disease, like something out of the history books, a death camp survivor. It takes Willow a moment to realize that the girl is none of those things. She's just a girl, a girl like Willow, who's chosen to inflict terrible pain on herself. Only this girl's weapon isn't a razor, it's starvation.”
― Julia Hoban, Willow