...and she said we all had to find God inside ourselves, in the things we loved most.

sometimes people think they're above the laws the rest of us live by. they're blind to their own imperfections.

the whole idea of boys being people you would actually choose to spend time with was pretty much totally incomprehensible to me. i could never think of anything to say to them, and they seemed equally dumbstruck by my presence.

But you can only lie about who you are for so long without going crazy.

Why is it that people don't know what to say when something bad has happened to someone they know? Maybe because they think there are some magic words that will make everything all right again, only they don't know what the words are.

nobody is like anybody else. that's why nobody gets along with anybody else.

i want to look at all my tears, she said. which made me shiver