Alone. The saddest word in the world.

Sometimes fantasies are better than life.

I'm partly somebody else trying to fit in and say the right things and do the right thing and be in the right place and wear what everybody else is wearing. Sometimes I think we're all trying to be shadows of each other, trying to buy the same records and everything even if we don't like them. Kids are like robots, off an assembly line, and I don't want to be a robot!

one day I'll be old, without ever having really been young

She didn't know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home.

My biggest mistake: not wanting to help myself into thinking I am happy, that change would come about without really trying to change, or wanting to change. Procrastinating about changing. I do want to change.

I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.