There are people that will try to hurt you and hold you down.

If you took every pop song to heart, you'd be a bleeding romantic with a crushed heart every five minutes.

There's no such thing as a perfect life, but if you hold on to that long enough and watch it get chipped away, that's really hard to deal with. I had no one telling me otherwise.

You can make yourself happy.

Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how life could look if you wanted it to.

There is no normal life; it's just an idea we've been fed. People who realize that tend to be the happiest.

Boldness comes from curiosity.