What do you think it is to be normal?' Why in the world would you want to be?' she says. I don't know. I guess that's the problem.' I don't think normal is that great.' But so many people choose it,' I reply. I don't think that's it at all. I think most everyone is normal and some of us, for whatever reason, choose to reject that and wear ruby red slippers or old black hats.' Well, why do we choose the hard road?

Anything that makes you happy can make you sad.

It’s easy to watch someone else’s life crash and burn, harder to watch your own accident up close.

Everybody's got their secrets; I carry mine like a jagged stone in my shoe.

these are the screams within these are the life streams bleeding from skin

The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.

Kara do you love Brad?' All my heart.' Then how can you let him leave next year?' I guess love isn’t enough sometimes.