“Why does it scare me to think I might be ordinary? I remember when I started first grade and I could hardly pay attention for fear I wouldn't learn to read and write. I didn't want to be like everyone else. I didn't want to have to learn. I wanted to know everything already”

“The crazy part of my mind is like a mischievous pet I have to keep watch over or it might behave badly while I'm not paying attention.”

“Our job on earth, as I see it, is to hold on through the hard parts and try and be a good person.”

“I've been praying to Jesus and the Holy Ghost for patience and I have also mentioned that it would help if I did not have frizzy hair.”

“I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?”

“If I was going to do something I didn't want to do, I at least wanted to be remunerated for it.”

“And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.”