The problem with you is that you always see a glass of milk half empty instead of half filled.

You came back fighting and furious at me. You told me you'd been looking for mermaids, and I interrupted you. [...] I said that next time, you had to take me with you." "Was there a next time?" "Well, you tell me, you don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

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

You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.

Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.

Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.