White Oleander Monologues

A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.

Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best you can do is know yourself… know what you want.

I could have left you there, but I didn't. Don't you understand? For once, I did the right thing! When I came back, you knew me. You were sitting by the door, and you looked up, and you reached for me. It was as if you had been waiting for me all along.

I thought Klaus and I would live happily ever after. That's what I thought, Adam and Eve in a vine-covered shack. I must have been out of my mind.

YES, I was in love with him. ALRIGHT? I was in love with him, and baby makes three, and all that crap!

I didn't leave him! He left me. You wanna know about your father? He left us when you were six months old for another woman, and I never saw him again until he showed up looking for you when you were eight years old.

Yes, he came to see you but it was a little late, wasn't it? Why should I let him see you after what he did to me?

No! No, no, no. You don't just walk away from me. I made you, I'm in your blood. You don't go anywhere until I let you go!

Of course I was jealous. I live in a cell with a women who has a vocabulary of 25 words.