I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.

So far, she’d been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction. Lena Kaligaris

She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to

Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on. -Annik Marchand

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.