“It was hopeless, life, really. It was set up all wrong.”

“Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.”

“The firs day of high school is bullshit anyways. It's supposed to be about new beginnings, but really all it does is wreck your life. And set you up for failure. And make you realize everything is completely and totally fucked.”

“Never give up trying to do what you really want to do in life. Where ever there is love and inspiration, you can never go wrong.”

“When we say we have given up hope, all we are really doing is challenging Madame Fortune to prove us wrong.”

“In a civil war… every side is wrong. It’s hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim.”