It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast.

The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.

There are times when you just have to let it all out. All the anger, all the pain.

Our role as humans is to recognize the complexity of others.

I know it's impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them--the bad kids and the good kids and all kids--as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for.

Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.