You don't get to pick who you are in this life, but you can decide what you become.

The hardest thing about being an outcast isn’t the love you don’t receive. It’s the love you long to give that nobody wants.

It's not that bullying is any worse today. The impulse for cruelty is the same impulse. The only difference is that the tools to achieve that have become more sophisticated.

What a desperate, pathetic fool I was. Time after time, my "friends" had shown me their true colors. Yet, I still wanted to believe they were sorry for causing me pain. p. 128

....you can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave.

I spent many years trying to make up reasons about why I had the flashbacks, memories, continuous nightmares. When I finally decided to quit trying to hide from truth, I began to heal.

I am a good woman. I know it.

Just know that your expectations are only thoughts in your head, and keep on doing what you do.

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.

Christians aren't people who never sin or always do the right thing. We're people who live in continual repentance.

The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Disease [is] as one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.