“How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence. ”

“It is terrifying,” said Adrian. “And weird, for lack of a better word. And part of you knows… well, part of you knows something’s not right. That your thinking’s not right. But what do you about that? All we can go on is what we think, how we see the world. If you can’t trust your own mind, what can you trust? What other people tell you?”

“Before you can express love, you must find love. You must know love within yourself before you can express it. You must love yourself before you can give it to another.”

“Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is.”

“When you know something’s wrong, but you don’t know exactly what it is, the air around you changes.”

“Exactly. How can you know it makes you happy if you’ve never experienced it?”“There are different kinds of happy,” she said. “Some kinds don’t need any proof.”