“And that's when it hits me, the punch in the stomach, the carving out of my insides. That's when I realize that none of this is a movie. I will not go out with a bang. There is no ending.… — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
“People don't just let you change identities, not unless there's something in it for them.” — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
“Silence does not mean yes. No can be thought and felt but never said. It can be screamed silently on the inside. It can… — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
“Even though I'm sleeping again, everything still feels a little rickety, like I'm here but not quite here, like I'm just a stand-in for… — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
“And maybe these words have become something more than emails; maybe they are a kind of journal. Writing to you is like writing to… — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
“You never heard me tell you that I want everything, not just the perfect pieces, not just the sparkling, charming snapshots of you. You… — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
“There is a picture of me in their heads, a picture of someone I don't know yet. She is not the chubby girl with the braces and bad perm. She is not the girl hiding in the bathroom at recess. She is someone new, a blank slate they have named beautiful. That is what I am now: beautiful, with this… — Amy Reed Copy Share
