“I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”

“I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”

“Because I want to have sex with him--and because that's sinful--I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny.”

“The human body is the best work of art.”

“A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement”

“The laws governed people’s happiness. To be lawless was to be happy.”

“Boys don’t cry—or at least that’s what everybody’s supposed to believe.”

“It reached a point where the paranoia was getting to me. Everywhere I looked, it seemed like people were hanging out, wanting to date, hooking up, wanting to hook up—it was relationships, relationships, relationships everywhere. Guys checking out girls, girls checking out guys. Dudes checking out dudes, chicks checking out chicks. Fuck! That’s what being a teenager was all about.”

“I didn’t know if I should put my faith in God or Satan. Was there really a difference at the end of the day, when we were all going to be dead souls anyway?”

“The words marriage and divorce were always used together, like they went hand in hand together.”

“Drug addicts had their drugs. Alcoholics had their bottles. Serial killers had their murders.”

“Then he gave me a sweet kiss as if I was his one and only lover.”