He’s my whole world.” “Don’t ever say that about anyone again. Not even me.

So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.

Have you ever done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don’t know why.

I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.

The fights are always the same

If it meant that I would never get to think of you that way, as long as you were happy, it was okay.

Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly.