I wanted to believe that Mom and Dad were waiting and actually wanted to see me. I'd thought that part of me, the part that wanted mom and Dad to be a family and not how we actually are, which is the two of them and then me, was gone.
-Chapter 1, p. 5

I wanted to tear it all down. You could have. You would have. You always knew what to do, what to say. You knew how to make anyone smile or shut the hell up.
-Chapter 4, p. 25

I had sex when I was drunk because it was a way to be close to someone without really being close at all.
-Chapter 4, p. 40

"People forget stuff like that... Stuff that... something happens that changes your whole life, and people tell you how sorry they are and all that, but then, after a while, it's like you're the only...