I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

I'm not going to give up salt and sugar because I want to look like Adriana Lima. But I am going to work out to make myself feel good in my own body.

I feel naked without my rings, and don't like walking out of the house without them, even if they do tear half of my sweaters and stab my friends in the eye.

I like having my own story remain my story.

I'm a minor player in my own life story.

At the age of eight I became, in my own eyes at least, a writer.