“Optimism was for children. Once you reached adulthood then you had to join the rest of the world as a realist - life was a bag of shit you were expected to pay for.”

“For once, you believed in yourself. You believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.”

“These children spend so much time demanding the status of adulthood from you - even when it isn't in your power to bestow it - and then when the real shit hits the fan, when you need them to be adults, suddenly they're children again.”

“I once told you that all actions have a cost, we simply must decide if they are worth paying. If you do not act in the best interest of your own happiness you will regret—and pay for it—for the rest of your life.”

“[Adulthood feels like] walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you.”

“Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.”