Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.

Live life as if today is your last day living. :-)

I want to ask him if it’s possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that way?

Its so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. Its like the worlds weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, Who is this tool standing up in front of us?

I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With books.

Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are

In books, the truth makes everything good and fine. The good prevail. The wicked are punished. There is happiness. But it's not like that really, is it?" "No," I say. "I suppose it only makes everything known.