I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.

She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.

It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.

Doubt is poison. It leads to a loss of faith in yourself, and in all that's good and true.

I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've always trusted it. Trust me now. There's a reason I am the way I am, and there's a reason I was born to you. There's always a reason. We belong together.

We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.