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Page 26

"At the same time, we held back. Because she was different. Different. We had no one to compare her to, no one to measure against. She was unknown territory. Unsafe. We were afraid to get too close."

Page 67

" 'I got a simple question for you. What's the matter with you? Huh? Huh?' 'Why can't you be normal?' 'Why do you wanna be so different?' 'Yeah- is something wrong with us, you gotta be so different?' " " 'You don't like us, do you? Do you?' "

Page 72

"But it wasn't blood. It was a tomato. Someone had splattered her face with a perfectly thrown ripe tomato, and as the clock expired and the Glendale fans poured onto the court, Stargirl just stood there, her great eyes staring up at us in utter bewilderment through the pulpy red gore. Spouts of bitter laughter erupted amoung us, even some applause."

Page 73

"Meanwhile, all eyes in the lunchroom were on Stargirl. I think we half expected to see traces of red still clinging to her face. She sat at her usual table with Dori Dilson and several other friends. She seemed subdued. She did not play her ukulele. She did not play with her rat. She just ate and talked with the girls at her table."