“Learning to walk sets you free. Learning to dance gives you the greatest freedom of all: to express with your whole self the person you are.”

“A poem is not an expression, norit is an object. Yet it somewhatpartakes of both. What a poem isIs never to be known, for which Ihave learned to be grateful.”

“There is a moment in your 20s when you know what it means to love rightly, but not how to do it, and then you begin to learn.”

“It's better being crazy because if you don't like the way it is here then you can have dreams. And if you don't like the dreams, then they come and give you shots and you don't feel anything anyway and you just drift around. Dead. Half-dead. Alive but like you're dead. You just drift around alive, but dead. And it all seems the same after a while.”

“What I've learned, Mia, and what my grandmother always said, is that the whole point is wishing and remembering - not if what you want happens, not if remembering hurts. Because when you wish for something, you're asking. And when you ask, you're trying. And all everyone can really do is try, right?”

“I know what you mean. I usually take it out on my older sister. You can lease her for a weekend or something if you need a psychological punching bag. I'll even give you a discount.”

“Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.”