No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world.

Dena had always been a loner. She did not feel connected to anything. Or anybody. She felt as if everybody else had come into the world with a set of instructions about how to live and someone had forgotten to give them to her. She had no clue what she was supposed to feel, so she had spent her life faking at being a human being, with no idea how other people felt. What was it like to really love someone? To really fit in or belong somewhere? She was quick, and a good mimic, so she learned at an early age to give the impression of a normal, happy girl, but inside she had always been lonely.

It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.

Don't give up before the miracle happens.

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.

No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world.