"See the thing is, I’m tired. Tired of all the pain I hear and see and feel. Tired of being on the road, of having nobody I can call a friend to walk beside me. Tired of people being so damn ugly to each other. It gets to be like broken bottles in my head, grinding away against each other. I’m tired all the time. Tired of trying to help and just making things worse. Tired of lonesome dark. But mostly I’m tired of the hurt and pain. There’s too much of it and I can’t stop it. I can’t even bear to look at it anymore."

"You won’t understand this now. Later, perhaps. When you are older. When you learn that life is not only about the choices you make. That some of them will be made for you."

"We are the girls with anxiety disorders, filled appointment books, five-year plans. We take ourselves very, very seriously. We are the peacemakers, the do-gooders, the givers, the savers. We are on time, overly prepared, well read, and witty, intellectually curious, always moving…We pride ourselves on getting as little sleep as possible and thrive on self-deprivation. We drink coffee, a lot of it. We are on birth control, Prozac, and multivitamins…We are relentless, judgmental with ourselves, and forgiving to others. We never want to be as passive-aggressive as our mothers, never want to marry men as uninspired as our fathers…We are the daughters of the feminists who said “You can be anything” and we heard “You have to be everything."

"Tattoos are not permanent because you are not permanent."