I believe that having something to hope for - even if it's just a better tomorrow- is the most powerful drug on this planet.

Close a door, and you'd still feel a breeze through the window.

People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?

I adore the way he looks at me sometimes, as if love is a quantity he cannot measure scientifically, because it multiplies too quickly.

When you don't fit in, you become superhuman. You can feel everyone else's eyes on you, stuck like Velcro. You can hear a whisper about you from a mile away. You can disappear, even when it looks like you're still standing right there. You can scream, and nobody hears a sound. You become the mutant who fell into the vat of acid, the Joker who can't remove his mask, the bionic man who's missing all his limbs and none of his heart. You are the thing that used to be normal, but that was so long ago, you can't even remember what it was like.

It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.