“I've scared, offended or made everyone uncomfortable enough to stay away. Mission accomplished.”

“I took my schedule, my map, and my abject horror and made my way to class, reading it again and again as I went. Unfortunately it stayed the same every time.”

“I'd watch her, amazed at just how much a person could accomplish fueled by tea and regret.”

“You can't change the rules and think everyone else is just going to keep playing.”

“Everyone wants to fix me... You're supposed to be the person who doesn't want to fix me.”

“I haven't gotten better. I'm not even close to okay. The only thing I've done is to decide to get better. But I think that may just be enough. I'm trying to see the magic in everyday miracles now: the fact that my heart still beats, that I can lift my feet off of the earth to walk and that there is something in me worthy of love. I know that bad things still happen. And sometimes I still ask myself why I am alive; but now, when I ask, I have an answer.”

“There's a reverence in the way he kisses me that frightens me, because it's the most wonderful thing I've ever felt.”