Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up.

I'd wish you good luck, but you won't need it. You get to write your own story now. Nothing's luckier than that.

We all make mistakes, the danger lies in letting those mistakes make us. Make us believe we can't put things right. Make us think there's no hope. Make us give up.

Keep being the author of your own story. Never let anyone else write it for you again.

DNA tells you all the secrets of life,’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it.