“Even when I took the drugs I realized that this just wasn't fun anymore. The drugs had become a part of my routine. Something to wake me up. Something to help me sleep. Something to calm my nerves. There was a time when I was able to wake up, go to sleep, and have fun without a pill or a line to help me function. These days it felt like I might have a nervous breakdown if I didn't have them.”

“I enjoy having breakfast in bed. I like waking up to the smell of bacon, sue me. And since I don’t have a butler, I have to do it myself. So, most nights before I go to bed, I will lay six strips of bacon out on my George Foreman grill. Then I go to sleep. When I wake up, I plug in the grill. I go back to sleep again. Then I wake up to the smell of crackling bacon. It is delicious, it’s good for me, it’s the perfect way to start the day.”

“Our relationship finally ended when he took to waking me up in the wee hours of the morning when he would go surfing. He thought it might be fun to have me come watch. "Fun for who?" I wanted to ask. I had never asked him to come to Happy Hour and watch me drink.”

“Joan era dura en el exterior, pero tenía una verdadera vulnerabilidad cuando llegabas a conocerla. Casi desde el momento en que me uní a The Runaways, había habido un lazo especial entre nosotras. La gente nos había comenzado a llamar “Sal y Pimienta”, no sólo por los contrastantes colores de cabello, sino porque siempre parecíamos estar juntas. En Joan, encontré una amistad mucho más intensa, y mucho más profunda, de lo que había conocido hasta ese punto en mi vida. Éramos niñas: Joan sólo era un año mayor que yo, y me aferraba más a ella que a cualquiera en la banda, y ella hacía lo mismo conmigo.Cuando pienso en Joan y nuestra relación, todavía puedo sentir un distante temblor por dentro. Nuestra amistad fue un regalo de Dios para mí. Era profunda, y por momentos ella era la única que me mantenía cuerda. Joan era perceptiva. Casi como si pudiera leer mi mente. Dios, cómo necesitaba esa clase de conexión. Especialmente cuando me sentía tan desconectada. Creía en ella, y en el sueño que la había conducido tan lejos. Me sentía segura cuando me quedaba cerca de ella, como si fuera arrastrada por la red de seguridad de su resuelta visión de lo que estábamos haciendo.A veces nos mirábamos y yo sentía un cosquilleo en mi estómago. Su sonrisa era tibia y su actitud de amor a la diversión me hacía olvidar cuán extraño y bizarro este mundo nuevo y loco realmente era. Ella era mi ancla. ¿Cómo explico a una persona que era mi mejor amiga, alguien en quien podía confiar como una hermana, alguien que para mí se volvió una fuerte atracción sexual? Bueno, es fácil. Tan fácil como era estar con ella. Podría dejarlo en que tuve momentos con una amiga que aún hoy me hacen temblar. Y fueron algunos de los momentos más satisfactorios de mi joven vida.”

“I woke up this morning for three minutes. I rolled out of bed, put on my slippers, and stared at myself in the bathroom mirror. That was all I could take. I went back to sleep. I didn’t go back to bed. I just went back to sleep. I slept all day. I sleep most days. I’m asleep when I go to school, asleep when I’m telling the barista which form of caffeine I prefer. It never wakes me up, but I spend $3.50 on it anyway. I’m asleep when my professors are talking, asleep when I go to the store to pick up milk. Sometimes I wake up, but it’s terrifying so I go back to sleep right away. I want to wake up. I want to have a reason to wake up.I brush my teeth every night before bed and wonder how many times I will brush my teeth before they are clean enough to never brush again. I eat lunch and wonder how much more I will have to eat until I’m full enough to never eat again. It’s easy to sleep through routine; I guess that’s why I stay here. I wish I could be done with this life so I could finally sleep properly.”

“Sentía odio. Odio es una poderosa palabra; me gustaba la forma en que se sentía en mi lengua. Odio. Es una palabra dura, como un golpe en la boca. Deja un sabor como de cobre después que lo dices de la manera correcta. ODIO”

“At the bakery it's just me. It's a small place. Just me and the raspberry horns and the tourtiere pies and my cigarette going in the ashtray near the black sink. Every once in a while a car passes through the dark street outside the storefont windows, but that's pretty much all I see of people while I'm there, until the end of my shift at eight when Monica shows up to open the store for the day. A solid twelve hours by myself, nothing but the radio to keep me company, and I like it just fine, being alone. It's even better in the winter, during a storm, when the snow piles up outside and no cars come by at all. Inside the bakery it's warm and there's plenty to keep my hands busy. Times like that, for all I can tell I'm the only person left on earth. I could go on making pies and watching the snow pile up until the end of time, so long as there was enough coffee on hand. I don't need company like some people seem to.”