Lisa Burstein

“You sure are willing to go through a lot for cigarette smoking and hand holding, " I said. "You need to try and remember that.”

“I'd always thought it was them, but maybe it was just what it felt like to not be ignored.”

“My Real confession would have been to apologize to her for turning into me. For letting her dreams drain out, until I became someone she wouldn't recognize”

“Unfortunately, I am only myself. I am scared and alone and unsure, but I am practicing. I am scared and alone and unsure, but that doesn't mean I always will be.Like AJ repeating words, I can repeat being me, until I start to believe it.”

“Unfortunately, I am only myself.”

“Connor put himself between his wife and me, then put his arms around both of us. I elbowed him. "I was forced to agree to praying, not to touching.""Touch is one of the most powerful healers.""So is morphine. I'll take that instead.”

“Ginny yelled through her megaphone as we worked, telling us to view the trash we picked up as a gathering of all the souls we affected with our drug use. To see each piece as one more person who forgave us.I picked up an empty box of adult diapers and wondered who that was supposed to be.”

“I ran toward the solitude of the dressing room. Of course, the full length mirror would have it's own disappointments, but I would take dealing with a fat ass over dealing with my mother any day. At least you could do something about a fat ass, in theory.”

“I read the following: Three local girls arrested in connection with area-wide drug-distribution ring, caught en route to the Collinsville South High Prom."Your mother thinks we'll have news crews camped on our lawn," He said.I was less concerned about that and more concerned that it was now forever in black and white that we had been dateless for the prom.”

“If bitching were karate, my mother would be a black belt.”

“I used to be nice, but nice was boring. Nice hadn’t gotten me anywhere.”