“Imagine what you'd do if it absolutely didn't matter what people thought of you. Got it? Good. Never go back.”

“that once people decided what they thought of you, that was it. You'd been judged. You got a stamp on your forehead that you could never wash off.”

“Maybe you didn't know what people thought of you because they themselves didn't know what they thought of you. Maybe you didn't give us enough to go on, Hannah.”

“Sometimes it didn't matter how much gumption you had. What mattered were the cards you'd been dealt.”

“Find the thing you love, and do it with all your heart, to the absolute best of your ability, no matter what people say.”

“I'd stay there, or not, and I'd eat, or not, and I'd drink, or not, and go home, or not, and what I did or didn't do wouldn't matter to anyone at all. And I walked for most of the day. Do people get sad on holiday sometimes? I can imagine they do, having all that time to think.”