“This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.”

“The ways of love are strange and hard:The love you want is always barred;The love you have you want to change.The ways of love are hard and strange.”

“I want to live in a world where people are judged by who they are instead of what size they wear.”

“I began to see the world the way it is, instead the way I wanted it to be.”

“It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention”

“The people in the line scratched and twitched and jumped depending on whether they were on their way up or down. They all wanted breakfast. The body was strange that way. Regardless of what you did to it, it wanted to keep running. Unless, of course, it turned on you.In a fair world the people who set out to destroy themselves would be the ones to get the diseases and little kids would get to grow up without worrying. In a fair world . . . but fuck-all in the world was fair.”