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

This is the world we live in, Gemma, for better or for worse. Make of it what you can," he says, and I pull him to me.

No? Part girl, part wolf? Do they lick their butter knives?

There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.

We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are thin strands of humanity that tether us to one another for a small bit of time, that make us feel less alone or even more comfortable with our aloneness, if need be.

People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.

I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time."-A Great and Terrible Beauty