" If fate was life, then Lene should just stay with the “wife-beater”, because every man she hooked up with would beat her. I couldn’t believe that was true, for her or for me. I had to believe my shitty life wasn’t some prearranged hell I could never escape. I wasn’t doing the best with decisions, or money, or finding someone to love me, but I hoped I was finally on the road to controlling my ‘crazy’. And just to prove I had control, I was going to turn this train-wreck of a night around.
I stood, zipped up my jeans, and kicked open the stall door. “I’m goin’ to par-tay!” I sang out loud.
Party, but not get laid, I reminded myself. "
― Cheryl R. Cowtan , Girl Desecrated: Vampires, Asylums and Highlanders 1984