But I can now understand why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometimes I'll read a sentence and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have recently felt but never said out loud. I want to reach into the page and tell the characters that I understand them, that they're not alone, that I'm not alone, that it's ok to feel like this. And then the lunch bell rings, the book closes, and I'm plunged back into reality.

Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. It's a battle or a dance as to whether you let it pervade. It takes courage to overcome, but it takes extreme fear to be courageous.

I am girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white.Remember this.

The tattoo is there not because I believe there is something wrong with me. It's there to remind me that our flaws are our strengths

Never trust a man who sits, uninvited, at the head of the table in another man's home.

I told you I'd find you.