We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

I want to love you and take you pretty places. Yes, I have things wrong, but also I can walk through walls if you'll let me show you.

One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one’s regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different.

Once more, this is love: it rings and you open up unless it looks like an ax murderer.

There are some secrets you want to keep to yourself, even if they don't matter. They might only matter if you keep them secret.

It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.

There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.