Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved her intensely if not honestly.

What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.

Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.

It was frustrating when people loved you and took an interest in you and sometimes worried about you and personally cared what you did with yourself. Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt good bout yourself and worthy of it and generous enough to return it. You could clip it off when you needed to hide or self-destruct and had nothing at all to give." (Lena, 194)

Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman

There are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift. Sometimes the big changes dong happen gradually but all at once. That's how it was for us. That was the day we discovered that friends can do things for you that your parents can't.

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.