Reviewer: nosleep (Anonymous) · Date: July 10, 2011 06:24 AM · On: Chapter 19

“No, Brian.  You wanted me to have your chance.  You were the one who wanted New York; you’re the one who wants money and influence and power.  That’s always been the problem; everyone always knew what was best for me, what would make me happy.  Never mind that those ambitions were only their own fucked-up hopes, not mine!  Dad wanted me to go to Dartmouth and be a businessman like him.  Mom used to want me to find a nice WASP boyfriend and settle down in a nice conventional relationship because that was how she’d been brought up.  Michael wanted me to go to Hollywood and make his comic into a movie.  Lindsay expected me to leap at the chance to go to New York and become the world-famous artist she never had the talent to be.  But nobody ever asked me what I wanted!”

I always thought this was so powerful and insightful.