You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?

Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.

Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.

I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.

Ingenuity requires creativity.

It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.

I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.

I also don't believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite afterlife to me, all accuracy and no feeling.

what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.

Can't say it often enough - change your hair, change your life.

On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.

Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.

Sorry is the fool who ever underestimates my mother.

It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.

I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.

People residing within the cult of average don’t like to see others rise. It threatens their security, and spotlights their low self-worth. Go for great, no matter what they say.

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.