“You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain.”

“You can't believe everything you hear. Sometimes, you can't even believe your eyes.”

“...some people won't even own a dog for fear it will die - you can't bubble-wrap your heart...”

“At some point, you have to decide not merely what you're going to believe, but how you're going to believe. Are you going to believe in people, or in ideas or in Orcholam? With your heart, or with your head? Will you believe what's in front of you, or in what you think you know? There are some things you think you know that are lies. I can't tell you what those are, and I'm sorry for that.”

“You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends”

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”