Miss DodgerAt a certain point in your life, probably when too much of it has gone by... you will open your eyes and see yourself for who you are... especially for everything that made you so different from all the awful normals. And you will say to yourself... But I am this person. And in that statement, that correction, there will be a kind of love.
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PhoebeI can see myself wrecking and ruining. But I can't stop myself.
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Miss DodgerSometimes you think you don't have hope but you keep on anyway and then you know you have hope.
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SallyHomo
JamieHomo got the part!
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JamieHow'd your audition go? I think mine went well. I practiced forever. I was better at home. Auditions are stressful. When I wanted my baking kit, I prayed to God every night for a whole month to get it.
Miss Reiter[to the class]What do we know about Good Job Jenny?
Phoebe[under her breath]She deserves a slow and painful death.
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PhoebeGilles de la Tourette syndrome. It's a beautiful name I think. I was born with it. Starting now. It'll get worse before it gets better. My shoulders, my fingers, and imitating. Spitting. It's a voice in your head that makes you do the opposite of what you're supposed to. It makes you break rules. But sometimes breaking rules is good. So I like to think about it that way.
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CaterpillarWho are you?
PhoebeI hardly know, sir, right now. At least I knew who I was when I got up this morning. But I think I've must have changed many times since then.
CaterpillarExplain yourself.
PhoebeI'm afraid I can't put it more clearly, for I can't understand it myself to begin with. And being so many different sizes in a day, it is very confusing.
CaterpillarIt isn't.
PhoebeWell, perhaps you haven't found it so yet, but when you have to turn into a chrysalis - you will some day, you know - and then into a beautiful butterfly, I think you'll feel a little odd.
CaterpillarNot a bit.
PhoebeYour feelings may be different. All I know is, it would feel very strange to me.
Principal DavisPhoebe, perhaps you should let your mommy and daddy and I talk alone about it. Here, you can have a candy.
Hillary LichtenPhoebe is imaginative and sensitive and passionate and if she did get excited about the gerbil, I'm sure she was provoked. You heard her, that other terror spat first.