“When your own romantic life is falling apart, everyone else's looks fabulous.”

“Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie.”

“One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.”

“The best words I ever heard about making your own reputation," Gram said, looking over her shoulder into the back seat, "is that you come into the world crying while everyone is smiling at the miracle of you, and you should live your life so when you leave it, you're smiling, but everyone else is crying because the miracle of you is gone.”

“When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.”

“Bad things happen to everyone, but when they do, you can't just fall apart and die. You have to fight back.”