[...] tenho de ouvir Mary Elizabeth falar sem parar de todas as coisas importantes que ela me mostra o tempo todo. É quase como se só houvesse três coisas envolvidas [no relacionamento]: Mary Elizabeth, eu e as coisas importantes.

É só que eu não quero ser a paixonite de ninguém. Se alguém gosta de mim, eu quero que goste de mim de verdade, e não pelo que pensam que eu sou. E não quero que carreguem isso preso por dentro. Quero que mostrem para mim, para que eu possa sentir também.

E quando eu disse a ela que já os tinha lido, ela me fez umas perguntas muito longas, que na verdade eram apenas as ideias dela com um ponto de interrogação no final.

Next was Alice. I gave her a book by Anne Rice because she is always talking about her. And she looked at me like she couldn't believe I knew she loved Anne Rice. I guess she didn't know how much she talked or how much I listen.

The fights are always the same

My grandfather was crying. The kind of quiet that is quiet and a secret. The kind of crying that only I noticed. I thought about him going into my mom's room when she was little and hitting my mom and holding up her report card and saying that her bad grades would never happen again. And I think now that maybe he meant my older brother. Or my sister. Or me. That he would make sure that he was the one to work in a mill. I don't know if that's good or bad. I don't know if it's better to have your kids be happy and not go to college. I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure she has a better life than you do. I just don't know.