But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head.

Rejection always hurts, but having it come from my best friend was the worst.

Everything...affects everything

That's why you did it. You wanted your world to collapse around you. You wanted everything to get as dark as possible.

Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.

I repeat his words in my head. What's going on? What's going on? Oh, well, since you asked, I got a bunch of tapes in the mail today from a girl who killed herself. Apparently, I had something to do with it. I'm not sure what that is, so I was wondering if I could borrow your Walkman to find out. 'Not much,' I say.

But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head.