People don't want you to be yourself, they just want you to be the person that they've decided you should be.

I think I needed to be really hurt on the outside so the hurt on the inside would realize that it wasn’t on its own and that it had to come out.

The thing about love was that it caught you unawares, turned up in the most unexpected places, even when you weren't looking for it.

I'd always thought that my awkwardness was a thin veil disguising the real me. The me that was funny and could write songs that touched people. The me that would one day find some beautiful, intelligent boy who'd recognize me as his soul mate. The me who was secretly pretty and stylish if only someone would lift the veil and see. But I was beginning to suspect that underneath the awkwardness there was just more awkwardness and not much else. And that would explain why I stood in a room full of people and felt like the loneliest girl in the world.

One day you’ll wake up and find that the pain’s still there but it doesn’t hurt quite so much.

I suppose the things that you always take for granted, that you don't even notice, are what you miss the most.

What you look like is just one part of who you are - but it's not all you are.