Mean Baby, by Selma Blair

“We are all in search of a story that explains who we are.” – pg. 11

“The words we use hold weight.” – pg. 12

“Buy what would still be classic in ten years.”
– pg. 31

“We don’t know what stains a pure heart.” – pg. 45

“That’s the funny thing about limitations; sometimes they aren’t about you at all.” – pg. 59

“We play the parts we are given.” – pg. 62

“As adults, we pull our childhoods with us wherever we go.” – pg. 62

“It means something big to have something of someone else’s.” – pg. 116

“Grief is love that you can no longer express.” – pg. 183

“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.” – John Steinbeck, pg. 256

“Every person on this earth needs just one person who sees them and roots for them.” – pg. 259

“I can’t profess to understand the mysteries of the universe. All I know is that I desperately love a story.” – pg. 287