Prior to being bullied, I was a very footloose sixth-grader. You know, I was quirky, I was creative - I really felt good in my own body. And when I was bullied in seventh grade, my self-esteem tanked.

Remember what to do when you're at the bottom of a hole? You've got to stop digging.

There isn't a definite right and wrong anyway. Sometimes we do what seems wrong, but we have good reasons for doing it, so it's not wrong after all.

I like the flaws best," Sam said. "They make her real.

Everything you do to other people affects them, and how you treat people affects them.

Sometimes we make decisions about our life and they feel like the right decision at the time. No, they are the right decision at the time. But that doesn't mean they'll be the right decision forever.

It's like you wake up one morning, and decided that how you've been in the past doesn't have to define who you are in the future. Simple as that.