Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.

Everything is still falling apart.

A knife, it felt like a knife, and I'd discovered that despite everything that's happened, I still had an endless untapped potential for getting hurt.

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author.

Does it hurt very much to die? Well, sweetheart, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.