“Why go through something alone when there's someone you trust to be with you?”

“There should be no shame in music.”

“I'm always the Skinny Girl, the one with no athletic talents, the girl who doesn't try hard enough, the girl who apparently never eats enough.”

“At fifteen, it's still kind of tough to see that people can't be compressed into one color all the time. They shift and change, letter days or not, many layers of many colors.”

“I wish I had known that secrets get stronger over time.”

“She's altered the rules on me. We weren't supposed to become the teenagers who 'have problems.”

“I saw in her more potential, more character, than her mother allowed.”