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

You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.

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.

Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who's in them.

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 trust dies from ifs and buts

I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they're just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.