“God, that’s always the thing you have to decide with high school kids: what to make an issue of, what to let go.”

“High School is like a sickness, but trust me, soon the fever breaks and you get over it." ~She's Come Undone”

“I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.”

“What if I don’t like adventure?Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.”

“sometimes when you go looking for what you want, you run right into what you need.”

“that's the funny thing about mazes: what's baffling on the ground begins to makes sense when you can begin to rise above it, the better to understand your history and fix yourself". (p. 717)”

“This was what could happen to you: you could end up this far from where you thought you were going.”