I've always known what I wanted.

Always been the kind to give everything that's in me.

My passion, my emotions, my all.

It's not something I regret, and it's not something I can stop.

It's the way I'm made... my insides are torn, not by choice.

What I need right now, is to know I'm worth your time.

To believe in the damage I've done.

Put some weight into this, for my sake.

I need gravity to weigh us down, if that's what you want.

I need something to withstand a storm.

I've always been a substitute person; a world class secondhand serenade.

I always will be the one who isn't worth your time.

The middle person; the hand-me-down; the secondhand rose; the substitute person.

I'll always be a Claire.

"You and I have a special talent, and I saw it immediately"

"Tell me."

"We're the substitute people."

"The substitute people"

"I've been the substitute person my whole life. I'm not an Ellen. I never wanted to be an Ellen; and I'm not a Cindy, either, although Chucks love me."

"I'm sure they do."

"I like being alone too much."

"I mean, I'm with a guy who's married to his academic career. I rarely see him, and I'm the substitute person there. I like it that way. It's a lot less pressure."

-Elizabethtown