But mothers lie. It's in the job description.

Mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying 'I don't want to deal with things today' and then can take the whole day off, while the rest of us are stuck fighting the fights we always fight, with no one really caring one way or another, unless...

It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

I’ll give you my strength if I can have your remission.

The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the universe - these concepts have become important to me, and I hope they're at work in my life on a minute-by-minute basis.

The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.

When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.