My mom beat me up," I informed my reflection. It looked back sympathetically.

That's what humanity is: a series of successes and failures, a testing of one's own nature and aptitude. Neither the body nor the soul can sustain such a state. Eventually it consumes a person

Melbourne, I always knew you'd need to learn about this kind of thing. I 'd just kind of hoped you'd learn it on a real guy.

Maybe you don't need beauty sleep, but some of us aren't so lucky.

But I’m just going to be out there having a tea party with her cats or whatever it is she has in mind." Adrian

Sydney had been horrified to discover my home library consisted of a bartending dictionary and an old copy of Esquire, and at her pleading, I'd promised to read something more substantial. I was trying to think deep thoughts as I read Gatsby, but mostly I wanted to throw some parties.

The love we'd shared always burned within me, no matter how often I told myself to move on, no matter how much the world did think I'd moved on.