“I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it goaway.”

“I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.”

“Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true - that there would always be that lost-and-found, and not the lost-and-still-lost that I am now trapped inside.”

“Every day I am someone else. I am myself-I know I am myself-but I am also someone else.It has always been like this.”

“It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.”

“I'm still upset with my mother, though. And scared.If you lose me, I remember her saying when I was little and we'd go to a department store, just let one of those salesladies know, and they will take you to where I can find you. Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true-- that there would always be that lost-and-found, and not the lost-and-still-lost that I am now trapped inside.”

“When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.”