All Alone in the Universe Quotes

“My dance on the pedestal was my friendship with Maureen. I wasn't sure how I had lost my balance and fallen off. Or whether I was pushed. Everyone around me was trying to get me to dance again. The thing was, I hadn't quite given up on getting back up there. I still believed it was the only place where I could be happy.”
― Lynne Rae Perkins, All Alone in the Universe: A Funny Middle School Story About Friendship and Betrayal for Kids

“I thought Marie could handle whatever came along. I thought of her as someone who did whatever she wanted to. That's what she would have said. She skipped school a lot, and when she did come, no one seemed to care what she did. The principals and teachers at school had already given up on Marie. They hardly even saw her, except as some kind of blemish. She could have stood on her head wearing a burlap bag, and nobody would have noticed all that much. They thought she was stupid. She wasn't stupid.”
― Lynne Rae Perkins, All Alone in the Universe: A Funny Middle School Story About Friendship and Betrayal for Kids