Quotes from Spencer Baum

Her first week as a girl wearing black came and went and she knew she was doing a terrible job at it. But she didn't care. How could she focus on the inanities of life as a Thorndike student when she knew that Melissa Mayhew had tortured and killed her father?

Because if you're out there not out of a love for justice, but rather, out of hate for your enemy, in no short time you will become the evil you thought you were fighting. Before you know it, the good guys will be the ones protesting you.

If everyone lived their lives the way you lived yours, would the world be better or worse?

The sound of the click, then the sound of Victoria's scream, then the sound of Victoria falling sideways to the floor.

truly understand what's going on with the youth of America, you need to realize we are the first generation that has spent our entire lives in the hyper-connected world. The Internet, social media, mobile devices—previous generations didn't deal with the ubiquity of this shit and have no clue how dangerous and exhausting it is to go through the trials of adolescence and young adulthood in a world that is always on. There is no privacy.

America has turned into an angry nation with two warring factions that ceaselessly demand that we join in their fight,