Why are you being so mean?""Friends tell friends the truth.""yeah, but not to hurt, to help.

I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die.

I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.

In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.

No, I am never setting foot in this house again it scares me and makes me sad and I wish you could be a mom whose eyes worked but I don't think you can.

Emma is a mattress who got thrown off the truck when her parents split up. It's not like you can blame a mattress when people don't tie it down tight enough.

I'm learning how to taste everything.

Dr. StupidParker says that when I'm sad it really means I'm angry and when I'm angry it really means I'm afraid.

Eating was hard.Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.

Why are you being so mean?”“Friends tell friends the truth.”“Yeah, but not to hurt. To help.

I drift into the armpits of strangers, tasting their manic salt, and sleep to forget everything.

Is romantic yearning an appetite for [H]eaven, or is it the ultimate refinement of covetousness?

Sooner or later you realize there are no answers, no answers except the ones you believe. Sooner or later faith is the only answer left.

You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to go, and you do know what that means.

The capacity to still feel wonder is essential to the creative process.

I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up.

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak.

In order to understand the dance one must be still. And in order to truly understand stillness one must dance.

To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.

I've wanted one thing for me whole life and I'm not going to be that girl who wants one thing her whole life then gets it and complains.