“I don't know if nice people tend to grow roses, or growing roses tends to make people nice.”

“This growing attached to people really sucks.”

“I'm not that nice," I said. People were always telling me how nice I was. You'd think it would be a compliment, but it was amazing how sometimes it just felt like a kinder way of saying "blah." "I just keep my horrible side well hidden.”

“Where you tend a rose my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”

“It's so much easier to have a crush on someone who you know isn't going to respond-it makes it nice and safe and you never have to humiliate yourself by getting knocked back.”

“Everyone is “extremely nice”—and yet I feel entirely alone. (“Abandonitis”).”

“I came from the gutter and i rose into a flower”