Only so much truth can exist between two people until it becomes too much, and then they can’t bear to be around each other.

I once heard my mother tell my sister love only comes at a price, there's no way around it. You give up parts of yourself for love, she said. If that's true, I thought, the cost of our love had risen. And despite wanting to be as real to you as you were to me, I couldn't afford us any longer. We were beyond my means.

Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are.

Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.

Normal is a setting on a washing machine.

Refusing to see truth does not make you noble or innocent, it makes you a naive child.