When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

I don't actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.

And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.

Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.

The biggest lesson I learned from my dad is to support children even if they're doing something that is unorthodox.

You don't dream so that you can remember it. You dream to achieve it.

Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.

Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility.

For the first time since 2007, the FDA Has approved a new device to treat obesity. The amazing breakthrough is called a vegetable.

I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Have I dated a supermodel? Of course not. I'd look ridiculous.

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.