J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before Quotes

Life is simply too short to live it less perfectly than it could be lived.

But I know he loves me. I know he needs our games, that they answer some deep-seated hunger in him.

Sometimes it's as if I can shrink away to nothing. Sometimes I feel as pure and perfect as a ghost. The hunger, the headaches, the dizziness—these are the only things that are real.

I know it must look odd, given that I didn't even know Emma. But it seems to me that almost no one really knew her. Everyone I speak to has a different version of what she was like.

We're all connected now, I think as I send it off into cyberspace. Everyone and everything.

I feel a thrill of excitement at this first tiny glimpse of self-revelation, of intimacy.

All these men who loved Emma, I think. For all her problems, men were fixated on her. Will anyone ever feel like that about me?