“There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover.”

“I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?”

“If, even after you make what everyone considers to be the biggest mistake of your life, you stop thinking it's a mistake and may be see it as the best thing that ever could have happened.”

“Everyone wants their kid to grow up and go to Harvard or be aquarterback for the Patriots. No one ever looks at their baby and thinks, Oh, I hope my kid grows upand becomes a freak. I hope he gets to school every day and prays he won’t catch anyone’sattention. But you know what? Kids grow up like that every single day.”

“You okay in there?""No, I'm hanging from a closet rod.”

“Here I am, wasting away inside a book I wish I could escape, and all she wants to do is stay in the story. If I could talk to this girl Delilah, I’d ask her why on earth she would ever trade a single second of the world she’s in for the one in which I’m stuck”

“It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.”