“I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.”

“The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have.”

“I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare”

“I just want to be me—I just want to be useful and … content. I want to stop wondering if I’ll ever feel whole and just be whole. I want to have a purpose one that I can look at without feeling like I’m less than I was.”

“I have had dreams, and I've had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.”

“It was a dream, not a nightmare, a beautiful dream I could never imagine in a thousand nods. There was a girl next to me who wasn't beautiful until she smiled and I felt that smile come at me in heat waves following, soaking through my body and out my finger tips in shafts of color and I knew somewhere in the world, somewhere, that there was love for me.”