“A beautiful thing is precious, no matter the price. Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy...”

“those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.”

“Now that all the beauty of my old life is gone, I crave it like good. A beautiful thing like this rose: I almost want to eat it, to swallow it whole to replace the beauty I've lost.”

“Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.”

“I remember how Talia got me to talk about the gardening thing. I’ve never told anyone else about that, but with this girl, I sort of feel like I can be myself without worrying about looking uncool. After all, she doesn’t even know what “cool” is.”

“I’m a girl. Every girl pretends she’s a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that. And I like the idea of ‘happily ever after.”

“I wonder how many times in my life I would have been able to prevent something, change something, do something different, if only I'd listened to someone.”