“Maybe I am everything I knew that I would never be. I looked back at Jay and smiled.”

“I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.”

“I look older. Maybe it's the short hair or maybe it's just that I wear all that has happened like a mask. Either way, I always thought I would be happy when I stopped looking like a child. But all I feel is a lump in my throat. I am no longer the daughter my parents knew. They will never know me as I am now.”

“I knew from the start that I loved her and knew, as well, that I would never fall back from that love, never try, never want to.”

“I turn and I slowly walk away and I don't look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.”

“What would I look like if everything that I am, no secrets, was put on paper? Would I be horrifying?”