“All those posters and PSAs and health class presentations on body image and the way you can burst blood vessels in your face and rupture your esophagus if you can’t stop ramming those sno balls down your throat every night, knowing they’ll have to come back up again, you sad weak girl.Because of all this, Coach surely can’t tell a girl, a sensitive, body-conscious teenage girl, to get rid of the tender little tuck around her waist, can she?She can.Coach can say anything.And there’s Emily, keening over the toilet bowl after practice, begging me to kick her in the gut so she can expel the rest, all that cookie dough and cool ranch, the smell making me roil. Emily, a girl made entirely of donut sticks, cheese powder, and haribo.I kick, I do.She would do the same for me.””
Quotes by Keene Abbott
Dare Me
“We discovered that the scrupulously strict were correspondently keen to discern suggestions of sex where nobody else would think of looking for them.””
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
Keene Abbott
Keene Abbott was an American author known for his contributions to early 20th-century literature, particularly in the realm of children's and young adult fiction. His notable work, 'A Melody in Silver...