“I don’t care about this stuff. I’m not even sure I’m a girl. I’m an eye in the sky. I am detached. I’m an idiot.”

“I’m already in the late stages of advanced detachment where my mother is concerned. With a little practice I could feel that way about everyone.”

“I may never recover. It was like an out-of-body experience. I’m an alien trying on human rituals.”

“It’s important to give people the benefit of the doubt even if they don’t deserve it.”

“I am not a people person.”

“Can you dance?Of course, I said, even though I can’t really. I think enthusiasm counts for a lot in dancing and in life.”

“In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject her and all of her codependent baggage. I am Codependent No More.”