“I'm thrilled with the person I'm becoming.”

“At seventeen I'm waiting for my life to actually begin. I'm afraid I'll wake up tomorrow eighty years old and I WILL STILL BE WAITING.”

“I don't feel like I have to conform when I'm with you.”

“When I drive 'home' and leave you, it makes me feel like I'm driving to nowhere - to nothing - to a place that doesn't make me feel.”

“The children almost broken by the world become the adults most likely to change it.”

“I am the type of person that I complain about.”

“Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we could just remember this, I think there would be a lot more compassion and tolerance in the world.”