I was never allowed to have any pets. Sometimes I think a puppy might have changed everything.

I'd never learned how to relate to people, much less how to speak up for myself. I preferred to sit and rage quietly.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life! xoxo"I had no idea what I'd said to inspire Reva to leave me such a patronizing note of encouragement. Maybe I'd made a pact with her in my blackout: "Let's be happy! Let's live every day like it's our last!" Barf. I got up and snatched the note off the fridge and crumpled it in my fist. That made me feel a little better.

I could plan to do something and then find myself doing the opposite.

My first impression of him was that he was free spirited, clever, funny. That proved to be completely inaccurate.

She was an expert at conflating canned advice with any excuse for drinking to oblivion.

I hated them for not worshiping me. Had they no idea of my sacrifice? There I was, perfectly wonderful, and nobody would see that.

I still felt that the good things, the things I wanted, belonged to somebody else.

He never knew what to say around her. Everything he wanted to say was 'You are beautiful' and 'I'm in love with you.' There was, in his mind, nothing else for him to say.