The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.

It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.

Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.

It's like the psychiatrists themselves are buying into that stupid belief that therapy is something to hide.

I learned a lot that night. For example, that part of being the magician's assistant means coming face-to-face with illusion. That invisibility is really just knotting your body in a certain way and letting the black curtain fall over you. That people don't vanish into thin air; that when you can't find someone, it's because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere.

There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That happy endings don't have contingencies and conditions.

What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.