The truth isn't going to bend itself to suit you.

I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit.

The status quo is never news, only challenges to it.

I suppose it doesn't occur to you that I can think the system just as unjust as you do.

Boys don't cry, but men do.

I wish... I wish he wasn't quite so ashamed of me. And if he could stop feeling so ashamed of himself, then maybe we might stand a chance.

Sometimes the things you're convinced you don't want turn out to be the thing you need the most in this world.