She had her addictions and one of them was reading.

Confidence doesn't come from thinking you're perfect or flawless. That's arrogance. Confidence comes from appreciating the beauty of your texture.

That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.

Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.

Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.

When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.

As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get used to certain luxuries that you start to think they're necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don't need them after all. There was a big difference between needing things and wanting things--though a lot of people had trouble telling the two apart--and at the ranch, I could see, we have pretty much everything we'd need but precious little else.