Misfits need a place to get away, too. All that trying to fit in is exhausting.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

The British have always been madly overambitious, and from one angle it can seem like bravery, but from another it looks suspiciously like a lack of foresight.

Rules? You don't even know what game we're playing, mister.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.

Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present.

I simply did not want my face to be my talent.

Western man is schizophrenic.

If you can't energize others, you can't be a leader.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

Be. Here. NOW. Don't forget to breathe. When all else fails, grab a clown nose.