Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.

The worst thing in the world was the way I felt when I wanted us to be like the families in the books in the library, when I just wanted Daddy Glen to love me like the father in Robinson Crusoe. (209)

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around.

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing they have been made. Children go crazy. Really, even children go crazy, believing the shape of the life they must live is as small and mean and broken as they are told.

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure

Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.