“Everything around me affirmed there was nothing else I could do – yet everything inside me cried that I was not doing enough.”

“After college I got a job and started working. This new career had absolutely nothing to do with my degree.”

“I avoided one-on-one situations, eye contact, and healthy relationships. Instead I took refuge in drinking too much, cheap sex, and sarcasm.”

“A lifelong movie I already knew the ending to”

“So this needs to be said, and so I will try to say it”

“It's the only way anything will change. Because we are both mother and child, cause and effect, villain and victim”

“And it's okay if you have to go away Oh just remember the telephone works both ways And if I never ever hear them ring If nothing else I'll think the bells inside Have finally found you someone else and that's okay Cause I'll remember everything you sang((You and I both))”