It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role isn't right for me'. And you have to start writing your own life and doing your own thing.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

If other people see you differently, you’ll end up seeing them differently, too.

We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We should have said we'd keep in words, because they are all we can string between us--words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen.

Without you I wouldn't have been able to contain the hate. I would have used it against myself. You're the one who helped me control it. My mind spun out to other things. But it always came back to you.

There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body.

There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.