"I am so full of contradictions. I am so full of myself."

"I was supposed to be a happy, well-adjusted American girl. And I was, for a while. But then I cracked."

"What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age."

"I began to think about the nature of my own misery, and how I could get out of it."

"I am a walking, talking, breathing semicolon."