“I have to keep reminding myself -- this is not me. It is chemistry. It is biology. It is not who I am.”

“Every day I am someone else. I am myself-I know I am myself-but I am also someone else.It has always been like this.”

“..I've been trying to argue myself into thinking these things don't matter, A. Really,I have. But I've lost the argument. And I can't keep having it, when I know what the real answer is.”

“hubris, n.Every time I call you mine, I feel like I'm forcing it, as if saying it can make it so. As if I'm reminding you, and reminding the universe: mine. As if that one word from me could have that kind of power.”

“And I, who have never thought in terms of a life, think to myself that I could make a life out of this.”

“Without you I wouldn't have been able to contain the hate. I would have used it against myself. You're the one who helped me control it. My mind spun out to other things.But it always came back to you.”

“I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.”