“Is there anything more embarrassing than being caught imitating someone you really admire, by someone who knows you really well? Apart from being caught taking a shit in public, maybe not.”

“...maybe, if you're lucky enough to have someone who really cares about you, someone you can trust, someone who reminds you to believe in yourself, you can survive absolutely anything...”

“It takes courage to create,' he said. 'People are afraid of embarrassing themselves by not being good enough.'Or maybe even by showing who they really are.”

“Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do”

“It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.”

“sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers”