“We made love, and then she threw up.”

“Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you for rejecting me by never being there, fuck you for making me feel like shit about myself, fuck you for bleeding the fucking love and life out of me, fuck my father for fucking up my life for good and fuck my mother for not leaving him, but most of all, fuck you God for making me love a person who does not exist.FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU.”

“She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.”

“Have you made any plans?Take an overdose, slash my wrists then hang myself.All those things together?It couldn't possibly be misconstrued as a cry for help.”

“A small girl became increasingly paralysed by her parents' frequently violent rows.Sometimes she would spend hours standing completely still in the toilet, simplybecause that was where she happened to be when the fight began.Finally, in moments of calm, she would take bottles of milk from the fridge ordoorstep and leave them in places where she may later become trapped. Herparents were unable to understand why they found bottles of sour milk in everyroom in the house.”

“They will love me for that which destroys me.”

“I love you still,Against my will.”