I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.

You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.

Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.

You could go church and you could describe your worst behavior, your worst self, and despite your worst behavior you would be forgiven and then redeemed and then accepted back into the community through communion. So you didn't have to carry this burden your entire life. Once a week you went someplace you went someplace where you could really look terrible and be loved despite how terrible you were.

Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you." The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic.

You can't be beautiful," Brandy says about a thousand times, "until you feel beautiful.