“…High school is a terrible time for female friendships when one of you has a goal and a clue and the other of you has a death wish and a substance abuse problem…”
“…My ex-husband tried to ban her from my life in the first weeks of our marriage because he didn’t like the way she dressed or who her friends were and surely a married woman should now only hang out with other married women. It ended up that she got knocked up by the metal singer and they broke up shortly after the baby was born. We didn’t have a lot to say to one another after that. I didn’t have a baby. She wasn’t getting wasted at clubs anymore.”