Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.

This is just me. Get used to it.

It's hard to come to terms with the fact that you aren't going to be loved the way you want to be loved.

But maybe you see beauty in me because you are beautiful, not because I am.

I think people are like that. When you really look at them, you stop seeing a perfect nose or straight teeth. You stop seeing the acne scar or dimple in the chin. Those things start to blur, and suddenly you see them, the colors, the life inside the shell, and beauty takes on a whole new meaning.

Sometimes a beautiful face is false advertising

Cages come in lots of different colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are still handcuffs.