“It always struck me in years after how bizarre it was, how two people could look at one another with such tenderness and complete love, and how quickly that could dissolve into nothing but b...”

“Some people think that a place can save them... Like if they could just be somewhere else, their lives would be totally different. They could finally be the people they always wanted to be....”

“I hate organized religion. I hate that people use it to justify their crappy, bigoted beliefs.”

“I guess that’s the thing about riding on cloud nine—it can’t last forever. And that particular fall was hard and fast.”

“All of them are the same type; girls with overprocessed hair and too much makeup and way too much access to Daddy’s credit cards. Girls who, if you took away the designer labels, hair dye an...”