But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.”“You don’t have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn’t always out to get you.

There was something really great about being able to put something out into the world—a song, an introduction, even my voice—and let people make of it what they wanted. I didn't have to worry about how I looked, or if the image of me people had fit who I really was.

Doesn't it seem sometimes that the whole world's uphill but at least we know the way back will be easy...

That was the thing about being on the inside: the world was just going on, even when it seemed like time for you had stopped for good.

Everything looks different when you're older, not staring up at the world but down upon it.

In midair, dangling lost above the world.