“I am an adult, but a damaged one.”
“In the end, this armor is my skin. If it is damaged, I am damaged.”
“I am the child I once was, and the adult I am today. I am all of my good points, and each of my bad. I am brave but afraid, healed but damaged, strong but helpless. I am everything I have admitted and all that I have denied. The person that I am right now in this moment is the product of every- thing I have ever been; the truth, the lies and everything in between.”
“Rita was almost as badly damaged as I am.”
“I never mastered anything. I am damaged. Broken. And I always will be.”
“Nothing surprises me now," I tell him. I am stoic. I am Joan of Arc, with liver damage and an unused penis.”