I learned how to stop crying.I learned how to hide inside of myself.I learned how to be somebody else.I learned how to be cold and numb.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents.

I'm dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame

I want to get lost in other worlds and let my imagination travel beyond this life I know.

There is no shame in having been the woman I was. She made me the woman I am.

A partial truth is nothing more than an entire lie.

If you had a lot of money and you were miserable, you’d be miserable poor.

The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.

We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's left is who we truly are.

I went to the actual SVU precinct... and got a really good sense of what it was like.

There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio.

People can call you many different things, but you are not what people call you. You are what you answer to.

The beginning sets the rules.