I must take some responsibility over my own life. I must write my own story.
-- Narrator (Chapter 1)

Importance: Here, the narrator remains insistent that she be the one to tell her story. Through her brief, violent marriage, her husband attempted to take her voice from her as well as her writing. He tried to erase her in many ways as he tried to consume her life within his own. Here, she stands against that and in opposition to that erasure as she wants to tell her own story.

The story changes every day, every hour, every single time I sit and chart it out. The actors do not change, I cannot escape the set, but with every shift in perspective, a different story is born.
-- Narrator (Chapter 2)

Importance: Here the narrator discusses a film she has made her life into metaphorically. In her marriage, she believes she has to play a role, and she is responsible...