Jenna Ortega credited as playing...
Cairo Sweet
- Jonathan Miller: Don't you get scared, walking through those woods?
- Cairo Sweet: I'm the scariest thing in there.
- Cairo Sweet: Literature is my solace in the solitude. And writing is my only escape, because, you see, I've never left the edges of this town. It's positively gothic, really. Lonely girl longs to be meaningful. Lonely girl longs to be loved. Books make longing to seem romantic, but it's awful. It's greedy, and I wear longing like a fucking veil.
- Cairo Sweet: You can't blur the lines, and then expect me to see a boundary when I suddenly cross it.
- Jonathan Miller: Henry Miller is public enemy number one with the censors. I'm not even approved to teach him.
- Cairo Sweet: So?
- Jonathan Miller: So, it would be a controversial choice.
- Cairo Sweet: If it's not controversial, it's not interesting.
- Cairo Sweet: A kiss ... a muse. It is a question, an unlocked door. It is ... elation ... and anguish.
- [first lines]
- Cairo Sweet: [narrating] What is an adult? Becoming one didn't suddenly transform me into anything outstanding or significant. I am 18 and entirely unremarkable. Languishing in the wilds of nowhere, Tennessee, in this tomb of a house left to me by my brilliant and selfish parents. They're no dead, though they pretend I am. They're permanently aboard.
- Cairo Sweet: Is this what it is to be an adult - the same exquisite longing of adolescence, but with the burden of constant accountability.