It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.

As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.

When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.

She stared at Peter, and she realized that in that one moment, when she hadn't been thinking, she knew exactly what he'd felt as he moved through the school with his backpack and his guns. Every kid in this school played a role: jock, brain, beauty, freak. All Peter had done was what they all secretly dreamed of: be someone, even for just nineteen minutes, who nobody else was allowed to judge.

You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?

Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong.