How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
I have just read the stuff I wrote in the last few weeks and I am being drowned in my own tears, suffocated, submerged, inundated, overpowered. They are a lie! A bitter, evil cursed lie! I could never have written things like that! I could never have done things like that! It was another person, someone else! It must have been! It had to be! Someone evil and foul and degenerate wrote in my book, took over my life. Yes, they did, they did! But even as I write I know I am telling even a bigger lie! Or am I? Has my mind been damaged? (170.1)
Alice is obviously distraught—the stuff she did on her druggie walkabout was pretty bad—but telling herself they're lies won't help her process what happened. But then she loses track of the truth, and frankly, she's not in good shape.
Quote #11
I don't know why I worry about her, she's a few months older than I am, but I just think boys are the root of most problems. At least, they've been at the root of most of mine, which is probably a big lie. (283.1)
Yeah, boys are not her biggest problem. But at least she can finally admit she's lying to herself… Winning?