Standing on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.

there was a time when these weren't memories.

Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped reading those self-esteem books because she met a new boy

The fights are always the same

You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.

I don't know what's wrong with me. It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart.

She said that by introducing me to all these great things, Mary Elizabeth gained a “superior position” that she wouldn’t need if she was confident about herself. She also said that people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don’t, nothing will work out the way they want.