Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.

In the same way that a tornado rips the roof off a double-wide trailer, leaving the occupants dazed and staring at the clouds from the splinters of what used to be their living room, it was over.

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic.

Nobody's trying to kill you, Deirdre. You're killing yourself.

We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover.

You must never allow something that happened to you to become a morbidly treasured heirloom that you carry, show people, put back in its black velvet pouch and then tuck back into your jacket where you can keep it close to your heart.