“Got my shit together” Definition: I’ve learned how to play it cool. I’ve got some ideas worked out.”

“I’ve got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.”

“I pretend I’ve got lots of confidence and I’m a big jock and like that but deep inside I’m a frightened, insecure, can’t-make-it failure.”

“…I’d have died without them [books]. Even now I’m not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I’ve gotten from books.”

“When I’m with him, everything makes so much sense…when I’m away, it’s so much shit.”

“The complete bottom has fallen out of my life.”

“I only know that I am now a priestess of Satan trying to maintain after a freak-out to test how free everybody was and to take our vows.”