Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live

All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face. For years, parents tell you that you can be anything, have anything, do anything. That was why she'd been so eager to grow up-until she got to adolescence and hit a big fat wall ofreality. As it turned out, she couldn't have anything she wanted. You didn't get to be pretty or smart or popular just because you wanted it. You didn't control your own destiny, you were too busy trying to fit in.

When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.

Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees

She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.

people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.