“I was used to feeling like I was never gonna see myself at the finish line.Hanging on to parts of me, hanging on at all. I was used to seeing no future in my sight line.”

“Feeling like I am now lighting up the hall. I was used to standing in the shadow of a damaged heart.”

“You say you don't see any part of me. To love in all this mess and I know. You take the good and all the bad that comes with me.”

“I won't mistake you for problems with me. I won't let my moods ruin this you'll see. I won't take everything good and move it away. I won't be left dancing along to songs from the past.”

“And I never wanted Tegan to not get what I was gonna get. It’s something that goes very, very much back to a very deep childhood place. She was the most important person to me, and probably at some point developmentally, I couldn’t even detach she was something separate from me.”

“I close my eyes I make myself unhappy so you'll go. Without me, oh what's wrong with you?”

“I'm not their hero, but that doesn't mean that I wasn't brave. I never walked the party line, but that doesn't mean that I was never afraid. I'm not your hero, but that doesn't mean we're not one and the same.”