silverfeather 's review for:

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

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"IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding. Andy Evans raped me in August when I was drunk and too young to know what was happening. It wasn't my fault. He hurt me. It wasn't my fault. And I'm not going to let it kill me. I can grow."

one of the most powerful endings (and books!) in fiction period