Objection!" Metz shouts. Grounds?" the judge asks. Well...he's my witness!

What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most popular girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead.

When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.

I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke; I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn't exist, except it is all I am, all the time.

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.

What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?