I can finally see that all the terrible parts of my life, the embarrassing parts, the incidents I wanted to pretend never happened, and the things that make me "weird" and "different," were actually the most important parts of my life. They were the parts that made me ME.

Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir) (ed. Pan Macmillan, 2012) - ISBN: 9781447223450