Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords and arrows.

I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself...I'll run to be emancipated.

Don't let anyone take care of you. Can you maybe leave that for me to do? I mean, take care of you? Feel free to take care of me in return... because I think I'll need you to do that.

I didn't realize until those few days how much a hug meant. To have someone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.

When I grow, I'm going to be my mother.

We look at each other for a moment and for once I feel awkward. It's not that I'm not into humility; I've just never had to practise it.

I just want it to go back to the way it was." "It'll never go back to the way it was, Frankie. But you have to make sure it goes forward.