It might pay to be resilient, if this was all being vulnerable and skinless got you. People didn't stop and cluck over damage done unless you made it worth their while. Indeed, maybe it was time to rethink this whole salvation business. Or maybe I was less desperate, less teetering on the edge than I cared to admit. Now, that was a refreshing possibility.

The Fame Lunches: On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the Brontës, and the Importance of Handbags (ed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014) - ISBN: 9780374711924