Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.

I am amiable. Vague. Puzzled. Messy-haired.

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.

Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

If you can't eat it, drink it, smoke it, or snort it... then f*ck it!

Fear is contagious. You can catch it.