We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

Love is a skill you learn.

Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

A knife, it felt like a knife, and I'd discovered that despite everything that's happened, I still had an endless untapped potential for getting hurt.

Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.

There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there. It’s up to you to find them.