he kissed me hard. "Promise me. Promise me you'll spend New Year's with me next year," he whispered into my ear.

Because that day with Willem, I may have pretended to be someone named Lulu, but I had never been more honest in my life. Maybe that's the thing with liberation. It comes at a price.

Because you don’t ever find things when you’re looking for them. You find them when you’re not.” “If that were true, nobody would ever find their keys.

Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that’s where safety lives.

If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam’s circle.

You were so busy trying to be my savior that you left me all alone.

Pictures can be pretty deceptive.