“Before we get started, do you have any questions or concerns you want to go over?" I asked. Joanna had always said it was… — Katie Heaney Copy Share Image
“I just had never occured to me to think that anything inherent to me was to blame for the things that went wrong (or… — Katie Heaney Copy Share Image
“The problem with being, as I was then, and on some days continue to be, neither adventurous nor reclusive is that you want friends,… — Katie Heaney Copy Share Image
“I'm not trying to be self-righteous about that, but I am literally the best friend a person could ask for and I am a… — Katie Heaney Copy Share Image
“She was saying she was sorry that she couldn’t always hang out when I wanted to, but that “when you get a boyfriend,” he becomes the only person you want to spend all your time with. He becomes your best friend, and (this part was not said, but was definitively implied) the only friend that really matters. “You’ll know what… — Katie Heaney Copy Share
“Advice and support are hard things to give. It can be particularly difficult thing to do when you know (or not "know," but strongly… — Katie Heaney Copy Share Image
“Girls are nothing to be afraid of, no matter the kind. Boys, on the other hand.” — Katie Heaney Copy Share Image
“Guys who would make fun of girls for sexual inexperience are terrible people, and when girls do it to other girls it feels even shittier. Guys who shame girls who haven't had sex want them to feel like they aren't doing their job, which is to be sexually available and attractive to guys. (And never mind if they are gay,… — Katie Heaney Copy Share
“When I'd see him I'd look at him, then look away, then look at him again. I never got closer than twenty feet, which… — Katie Heaney Copy Share Image
