Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.

How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring adherence to the way things can be, and thought a little more imaginatively about the way things might be.

The future is a messy, motley business, little girl.

Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You'll never wish you'd held back a little more.