“Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.”

“Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.”

“The best friends you will ever have are the ones who don't make you feel like you owe them a damn thing.”

“I keep waiting to feel old, to feel like a grown-up, but I don't yet. Do you think that's the big secret adults keep from you? That you never feel like a grown-up?”

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”

“Like the children in fairy stories who have seen their parents make pacts with terrifying strangers, who have discovered that our fears are based on nothing but the truth, but who come back fresh from marvellous escapes and take up their knives and forks, with humility and good manners, prepared to live happily ever after -- like them, dazed and powerful with secrets, I never said a word”