I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?

If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.

I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too..but I've never had that kind of courage.

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.

That's because you've never been one. You haven't spent years wearing someone else's clothes, taking someone else's name, living in someone else's houses, and working someone else's job to fit in. And if you don't sell out, then you run away... proving you're the Gypsy they said you were all along.

There's no way to convince her that just because you put half. planet between you and someone else, you can't drive that person out of your thoughts. Believe me. I've tried.