“Because I have no actual sisters, it is my friends from Ames who’ve exposed me to every facet of womanhood.”

“I don’t fit into any demographic, I never really have. But that’s true of lots of us, especially people my age and younger who’ve grown up with complicated identities, because life has gotten more complicated, and in which we don’t want to be defined by any single one of them, but are happy to present many facets of our interests and personalities.”

“I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.”

“are you because of me?am I me because of you?the lines have long since blurred.if, that is, they ever existed."from "The Complication of Sisters”

“I am completely happy. My sister is here, and because my sister is here I am somehow more me.”

“The two sisters wouldn’t sleep with me. But it’s cool, because they were nuns, and I didn’t have my clerical costume on.”