“being proud of one’s sexuality doesn’t mean one deserves sexual assault”

“if I just paced long enough, they’d see me”

“You wake up to a certain kind of blackness”

“I had been lying about having my period since junior high”

“Lie with who you want. This is what is expected of women my age”

“Still watching my shower drain like it holds horrors”

“You are naked in the darkroom”

“All that you knew in your mind sent out over copper wires”

“the headline of all the papers being held up and read announced the fourteen-year anniversary of 9/11”

“I inhale and my lungs know it’s over”

“I am using the same fantasy I’ve used since before I used my fingers”

“forced to swim for their lives to their neighbors’ house on slightly higher ground in the middle of 174mph winds”

“every time I eat, I am digging my grave with my spoon”

“we held our story up against the one we had been taught about marriage and virginity and sin”

“When he pulls the knife, I remind him
I’m already dead.”

“either way, I look like something from Ed Gein’s woodshed”

“Drugs, in the 1970’s, they was a sign of the times”

“My sexuality is there with me and she’s fine. I don’t second guess her.”

“Going under for the last time”

“I killed the old me right there and then”