“It's weird how you think you've got your life sussed and then it flips over and all your priorities change.”

“I don't know if you ever get over having your heart broken.”

“When you've got a real boyfriend, everything stupid is okay, and everything scary feels safe.”

“Well, you get to know yourself better. You write about events when they happen to you, but then later you can read what you said about them, and enough time has passed for you to not remember exactly how you were feeling at the time, and you can see where you’ve gone wrong, or right. It’s always surprising—your attitude always changes. Maybe it was a huge deal at the time and now you have no idea why it upset you.”

“Unrequited love is like buying a dress that you can’t fit into but you promise yourself you’ll diet for—you can’t think about the dress, only about the fact that your body is too big for it.”

“Being brave is not a part of yourpersonality, it’s your job. It’s what you owe the people who love you.”

“I'm scared of using the few memories I have and turning them into memories of memories, like songs you've played too many times, and you feel just a bit less excited by each time.”