- My middle name is Margaret.
- I live on a farm.
- I have horses, goats, dogs, cats, fish, turtles, tons of animals.
- I’m a yellow belt in taekwondo.
- I’m certified in CPR and babysitting.
- I love volleyball and I play on a club team.
- I have won many awards in writing.
- I model and act.
- I love photography.
- I want to go to the University of Hawaii and study in marine biology.
- I wrote a novel.
- I’m adopted.
- I have two brothers.
- One of my favorite things to do is ride on my dune buggy.
- My favorite food is Ahi tuna.
- I love to draw and paint.
- I’m in the art program at school.
- I hardly knew anyone coming into John Carroll.
- I’m socially awkward, most of the time.
- I love music.
- I danced for 10 years.
- I can only sing in tune if I’m singing with an accent.
- My favorite song is, “Faithfully” by Journey.
- I love old rock bands.
- My favorite place to be is away from Maryland.
Similes:
- "It's like riding a bicycle." -Sara, page 82.
- And afterward, when the leaves turned and the snow came, every now and then I would rise in everyone's mind like a tide.-Anna, page 85
- I used to pretend they were a single skin, that I was curled tight beneath them like on large heart.-Anna page 91.
- The other thing I like is that Laundromats draw lonely people like metal to magnets.-Anna page 91.
- I take a right and drive past a cementer, headstones canted forward and back like a set of yellowed teeth.-Sarah page 101.
Metaphors:
- My apartment, it is a work of art.-Campbell, page 75.
- Take it from me: love has all the lasting patience of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.-Campbell, page 76.
- I have seen her before be a tiger, fighting a medical system that isn't moving fast enough for her.-Anna, page 88.
- It makes my heart, that runaway train, slow down.-Anna, page 89.
- "You don't have to ask me twice." he says, his voice full of broken glass. -Anna, page 91.
