“But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.”

“Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore”

“Can you see the pond?"From up here, I can. It is a piece of sky, lying on the ground. When Heaven breaks, who fixes it?”

“Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.”

“Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.”

“How can you ricochet from a moment where you are on top of the world to one where you are crawling at rock bottom”

“When you don't fit in, you become superhuman. You can feel everyone else's eyes on you, stuck like Velcro. You can hear a whisper about you from a mile away. You can disappear, even when it looks like you're still standing right there. You can scream, and nobody hears a sound.You become the mutant who fell into the vat of acid, the Joker who can't remove his mask, the bionic man who's missing all his limbs and none of his heart.You are the thing that used to be normal, but that was so long ago, you can't even remember what it was like. ”