If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?

You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.

I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter.

Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't noticed--weren't sentences; they were knots in the wood of our bodies, places where our blood flowed backward. If you asked me, not that anyone ever did, the only words worth saying were I'm sorry.

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.

Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.