“If you can't open it, you don't really own it.”

“You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.”

“If you don't like a book, you can close it. But you have no right to say I can't open it.”

“You can't love someone if you don't really know them. And if you can't love them at their darkest moments...you just can't love them, period”

“You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.”

“You don't really dream about the things you can become if you know you can't become them.”