A century later

• "the school-bell is a call to battle"
• "surrendered, surrounded, she takes the bullet in the head"
• "the missile cuts a pathway in her mind"
• "this girl has won the right to be ordinary"
• "Bullet, she says, you are stupid. You have failed"
• "You cannot kill a book or the buzzing in it"
• "A swarm. Behind her, one by one, the schoolgirls are standing up"
• "wear bangles to a wedding, paint her fingernails, go to school"