“Not being perfect hurts.”

“Your body Hurts me as the world hurts God”

“Life has been a combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.”

“There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.”

“Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.”

“I said: I must remember this, being small.”

“I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.”