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The best way to explain how I was feeling is that I wanted to crawl into a black hole by myself for a long time.

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We walk around with these burdens, these secrets that we’ve categorized as shameful and embarrassing so we keep them inside when in reality, so many others, often those closer to us than we realize, are carrying the same exact baggage. Can we quit that?

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I’m going to learn to sit with the silences, to be vulnerable. I’m not going to hide.

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I didn’t think of it as “crystal meth.” This was just speed — a higher-strength Dexatrim than I could buy at the store.

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I called his office, he told me that his phone died, that he forgot his charger at home. He’d call me later. 10 days of nothing. He disappeared.

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There are certain relationships that are meant to dissolve into the time-space continuum behind you, and you should absolutely not feel bad about that.

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I used to think that he was cheating on me. I used to wish he was cheating on me, even, because that would at least wrap everything up in the kind of justification that I could get myself to understand.

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If you are going bald, and are past the point of creating a reasonable facsimile of hair with a few good products and swishes of the comb, you just have to run with it.