That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?

That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.