There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.

You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn't change anything.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

I know Mark,' I reply. 'And I don't like him.' 'But I do. And part of being social means being civil to someone you don't like.' 'That's stupid. It's a huge world. why not just get up and walk away?' 'Because that's rude,' Jess explains. 'I think it's rude to stick a smile on your face and pretend you like talking to someone when in reality you'd rather be sticking bamboo slivers under your fingernails.

When your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.

Life can change in an instant.