“I bring out the worst in you and you bring out the best in me.”
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<p>The shootings in Pleasant Valley were fifty miles away, but at Central High a grief and crisis counselor is hired, security is increased, and privileges are being taken away.</p><p>No one knows why.</p><p>If you break the new rules the punishment is severe. And the rules keep changing every day.</p><p>School feels like a prison.</p><p>It's for their protection, yet fifteen-year-old Tom Bishop and his friends learn that things are far more sinister than they seem. Students and teachers begin disappearing.</p><p>There's no way to stop it.</p><p>Nationally best-selling and acclaimed author Francine Prose has written a haunting novel about what happens when protection goes too far and what it means to have freedom extinguished -- in the name of safety.</p>
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Francine Prose
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“I bring out the worst in you and you bring out the best in me.”
“I feel as though I am ice and he is fire. We are so completely different, yet the same.”
“What is usual is not what is always. As sometimes, in old age, hearing comes back. Footsteps resume their clipped edges, birds quiet for decades migrate back to the ear. Where were they? By...”
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“My thoughts are all over the place as I fall asleep, and images of clouded roses and angry green eyes flow through my dreams.”
“Hardin is like a drug; each time I take the tiniest bit of him, I crave more and more. He consumes my thoughts and invades my dreams.”
“My life before him was so simple and decided, now after him...It's just...After.”
“I think back to what Landon said about heartbreak, that if you don’t love the person, they can’t break your heart. Hardin repeatedly breaks my heart, even when I don’t think there are any mo...”