“Remember what I told you. If they hated me, they will hate you.”

“The whole time, I’d never seen, all you had spread before me. The whole time, I’d never seen, all I need was inside me. Now, I feel so different.”

“How could I possibly know what I wanted, when I was only twenty-one?”

“Whatever it may bring, I will live by my own policies, I will sleep with a clear conscience, I will sleep in peace.”

“Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.”

“I love you," my mom says.I love you," my dad says.And all I say back is, "I love you."Because there isn't a fancy-or better- way of saying that.”

“You must not try to be too pure, you must fly closer to the sea.”