“Romance goes like this:Boy gets girl.Boy loses girl.Boy gets girl again.The end.It can't be any other way.”

“I am like a leaf on a river, riding along the top of the water, not quite floating, not quite drowning. So I can't stop, and I can't control the direction I am going. I can feel the water, but I never know which way I am heading.But I might feel lucky this day and avoid the sticks and branches scratching and pulling at me. ”

“Boys are not supposed to cry. Because when they do, things get worse. Then suddenly you have two problems. You have whatever it was that made you cry in the first place, and then you also have the problem that you are a boy crying. And someone is bound to let you know this is worse. So now you have two problems. ”

“It occurred to me that a lot of beauty has to do with believing it yourself. That half of what we see is just the way it is presented.”

“Why do people want everyone to act just like they do? Talk like they do. Look like they do. Act like they do. And if you don't— If you don't, people make the assumption that you do not FEEL what they feel. And then they make the assumption— That you must not feel anything at all. ”

“In fact, being a unique individual is as much of a farce as trying to be like everyone else. Maybe more.”

“Because there is a need to hear one story and to tell another.”