“Once more Isambard looked completely terrified. Twice in one night! This was going to be a diary entry for the ages.”

“Luce,' she says, 'I don't want my diary entry tomorrow to be: Stayed out all night. Went to prison. I have this urge to go home and watch TV with my parents and be completely boring.”

“I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it to feel sane.”

“These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once in the world, and once again on the page.”

“The human body is an amazing organism. It can go from dead tired to completely alert in a terrified blink.”

“Why is it that you can only watch a great movie once or twice, rarely more than that, but you can watch the moon come up night after night for a hundred years and it's always as picturesque as the first time you ever experienced it?”