“Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes.”

“In his heart he knows first isn’t touching a door knob, or getting to sit in the front row seat by the window, or making it up to the road before everybody else. First is something deep down inside you that you know and feel and nobody can take away from you”

“THUMB, I HOPE I WILL NOT BORE YOU WITH HOW TOTALLY, TOTALLY I ADORE YOU. THE FUNNY WAY YOU HAVE OF TALKING, THE CUTE WAY YOU HAVE OF WALKING. PLEASE DO NOT FEEL THAT I AM STALKING YOU. LOVE, HENDERSON”

“Es una cosa terrible enterrar algo dentro de ti y nunca dejarlo salir. Es mejor hacerle frente, para gritarlo y gritarlo y para llorar y dejarlo salir. Para ambas. No es bueno guardar las cosas en una botella, porque cuando la botella se llene, puede explotar como un volcán.”

“I told you growing starts from the inside first, honey, and in that way, you've been growing like wildfire.”

“The whole place seemed wrapped in isolated autumn silence.”

“Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to.”