" Why don’t you want to see your mom? Did she burn your
dolls in a sacrificial fire? Read your e-mail?”

“She wants to run my life,” I explain.

“What a bitch. It’s like she thinks she’s your mother
or something.”

“She’s a psychopath,” I said. “It’s complicated.”

“Psychopaths can’t afford fur coats.”

“This one can. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , Wintergirls