"I’ve got this theory. It’s called the Reinvention Theory. This is how it goes. If you become somebody beat or fucked up then you will be unrecognizable to your parents and loved ones. They will beg you to change, but when they see you are a genuinely different person — because maybe you’ve dyed your hair seven different colours or obtained your allowance from dirty-fingered old men in the street or put a ring through your pussy or tattooed milk fucking toast on your forehead or scarred your body on all the visible areas or yelled words like shit cunt pussy dyke faggot mail-order bride, snuff flicks cock ring John Holmes is my Dad or cut off your body parts and mailed them care of Mom and Dad — then they’ll realize how terribly sorry they are and they will kill themselves and leave you all their money and a blackboard with I fucked your life written two million times in their own blood."
— The Tracey Fragments, Maureen Medved
