No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.

I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.

He knew about being alone. The weather was always cold there.

Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.

How deeply bound by cords of family anger we all are[...]None of us breaks free.