"Laughter negates many insults."
"Little did I know how detrimental my overindulgence would be to my night and the high price I’d pay for years to come.”
“Thirteen-years-old is a pivotal age when it comes to a young girl’s self-worth."
"Cruelty is like currency in high school, it buys popularity and power."
“The following day is full of scowls from the followers, silence from the scared, and moral support from the strong few who didn’t even know me that well.”
“Never argue with an idiot; they'll drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."
"These days I long only to be social within my small, but valuable circle of pivotal people."
“But what I found to be most interesting about dating, is that some people I know simply don’t believe in dating. Maybe they believe in marrying the first moron that comes along and living miserably ever after.”
“There were plenty of times I ended “courtships” for petty reasons, but the truth is, they were never going to work for me anyway, otherwise I’d have been able to tolerate their idiosyncrasies.”
“I had to endure the embarrassment of having police cars in my driveway on a weekly basis due to his bullshit. This made me want to cover my head with a paper bag. Usually I was so mortified that I couldn’t make eye-contact so I just looked the other way. Sometimes I thought, “Who WOULDN’T gossip about this?”
“I believe that when we’re on our deathbeds, some of us will wish we would’ve worried more about those who do love us, rather than those who don’t.There will always be assholes, but my daughter will only be little once. She will only fit on my lap for a short period of time. She will only want me to read to her for so long, and then that time will be gone, and I will never get it back. Ever. My time and energy will have been given away to those who were never worthy of it.”
“My honor and integrity are much more valuable to me than my livelihood ever was or ever will be, and my emotional paralysis is quite unfortunate. Their degrading fabrications will always disgust me.”