She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with a chance to live my life again. I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And the joys I have felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently.

Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why you shouldn't do it.

I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.

Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite?

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.