Disease [is] as one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.

If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella.

Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.

I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. You hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.

Light like this does not exist, but we wish it did. We wish the sun could make us young and beautiful, we wish our clothes could glisten and ripple against our skins, most of all, we wish that everyone we knew could be brightened simply by our looking at them, as are the maid with the letter and the soldier with the hat.

... now I was safe, now I was really crazy, and nobody could take me out of there.

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.