People have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years.

People envision [looking inside the brain] as being very difficult. You had to take a spaceship, shrink it down, inject it into the bloodstream.

Take that rage, put it on a page, take the page to the stage, blow the roof off the place.

Behind these eyesthere is a girl trapped withinher pain – a girl feeling all the emotionsof anger and sadness.She’s fighting for a way out.” (In her eyes, p. 39)

When you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you.

I'm a tough coach, but on the other side of that is me telling them to go all out, "because you're great, because I don't want you to fail, because you were born to do this and you have a dream."

A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.

There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth

Sometimes it's better to forgive and forget. And sometimes, on the other hand, it's better to leave the friendship.

I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?