Sublime

obdurate.

sapient

verboten;

human beings could subject an animal to anything—crowded conditions, chemicals, mutilation, misery, and death—but not pleasure.

but that night, she realized she wasn’t old at all. You couldn’t be old and still be wrong about as many things as she’d been wrong about, and it was a kind of immaturity to call yourself old before you were.

ornery.

Sometimes she felt that she was a nowhere girl, that whatever place she was in could be any other place.

vitriolic.