“Just remember that this relationship is based on mutual trust and respect, so never reveal your true self.”

“Nothing was a more powerful compass of my mood or a better indication of my self-worth than the number on the scale.”

“I hadn't been able to trust since the age of four. I was torn between wanting to be cradled and telling the world to go fuck itself, and those were opposite sides of the same coin.”

“What I want to know it whether we're supposed to change or just accept who we are?”

“[I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.”

“...but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.”

“The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life.”