"I will call people by different names or generic names because I don't want you to find me. I didn't enclose a return address for the same reason. I mean nothing bad by this. Honest" (Part 1, p. 2).

"And he wound up and hit her hard across the face. I mean hard. I just froze because I couldn't believe he did it. It was not like him at all to hit anybody" (Part 1, p. 11).

"The thing is some girls think they can actually change guys. And what's funny is that if they actually did change them, they'd get bored. They'd have no challenge left" (Part 1, p. 23).

"Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life" (Part 1, p. 24).

"She calmed me down, and I guess I'm glad she did because I think I would have gotten even madder if I started hitting Dave...So, I decided to do the next...