My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.

The reason books get banned, but movies can do almost anything is because the novel is more powerful than a movie. The reader is part of the creation of the story because they must imagine and envision it. There is creation in the act of reading.

I miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you.

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

I love being reminded that existence itself is all about the tangling of souls.

I think that being bullied is a shameful experience.

I've always protected myself when it comes to love. And maybe that's the problem. By not letting myself get hurt now, it ripples into much bigger pain later.