But now I give in, let the anger surge. I'm sick of people acting like this world, this other world is the normal one, while I'm the freak. It's not fair; like all the rules have suddenly changed and somebody forgot to tell me.

That's the easy thing about falling: there is only one choice after that.

Love is the only thing in the world worth having. You must never loose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.

Black is too morbid; red will set them on edge; pink is too juvenile; orange is freakish

The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don’t.

Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we spoon to our babies.

It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.