I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.

Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)

Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.

I hated motorcycles. I said to my mother, 'I'll never get a motorcycle.' And she said, 'You never know what you'll want when you are older.' After that, the thing that scared me was not so much the motorcycle itself, but that I could turn into a person who would want one. I was scared of the idea that I could become an entirely different person, a stranger to myself.

There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through.

All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.

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