Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.

I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.

What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most popular girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead.

True love can break the most powerful curse

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

What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken.