Self-hate is rarely unconditional.

“I'd violated the primary rule of junior and senior high-- don't get people talk…”

“I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in…”

“I have come to love you in spite of---" Do I want to be loved in spite of?...Do…”

“I suppose memory has at least two faces, and capricious ones at that.”