“We'll build a fortress to keep them outAnd in a world gone silent, I'll be your soundAnd if they try to hurt you, I'll tear them downI'm always with you know”

“The way to get through normal life is to pretend it isn't getting to you. If you let on that you're hurt, the other animals will turn on you and tear you to pieces. Don't attract the attention of predators.”

“She realised with an intense, wonderful rush that love didn't make you weak. It made you vulnerable, but it also made you strong.”

“Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. These are the justifications for your lies. You know, like you are doing this to protect someone you love, to keep them from feeling pain. Whatever works, just so you feel okay about the lies.”

“The actuality of us being cognizant and accepting of the fact we are but a speck of sand in a universe sized desert, whose existence is irrelevant to any facet of universal function is a hard pill to swallow. Knowing the world will go on for another billion years after death and you will have no recollection of anything, just as you have no recollection of the billion years before your birth is a mind-boggling intuition,”

“I've been in the world three weeks and a half, I still never know what's going to hurt.”

“I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.”