If there's a place you should be able to put yourself first, it's in your own sexual fantasies.

I'm never going to be happy, but I could get close now, I think. I could be almost normal. I could have a friend.

I can see where this is going, too. Of course, I can, because I am Alex as well. But I want to dress up in gorgeous clothes and strut up and down the runway like they do in the magazines, swishing my tail. I want to dress up with Amina and Julia and giggle and be girlfriends, arm in arm. I want to be beautiful. I want other people to think I am beautiful.

I can understand why you would want to be literally out of your own heard, because being inside your own head is unbearable.

Do you want me to lick you again?

Sometimes I don't know what I am. But what I would like to be on the outside -- what I want other people to see -- is a girl.

Honey, there is no one right way to eat cannelloni.

Well, I totally understand why people take huge drugs. Like heroin, or cocaine. I can understand why you would want to be literally out of your own head, because being in your own head is unbearable. In fact, the reason I haven't taken drugs like that is because I know that it would be so good to be out of my own head that I wouldn't be able to stop