Page 1: "Nothing is good or bad, only thinking makes it so."
Page 7: "That's the way life happens, why you have to be able to see all the angles every time you make a choice. What's true today might not be true tomorrow."
Page 52: "I would like to...know what people are really thinking instead of just what they are saying."
Page 54: "If I like a person, if they have a good heart, that's what makes them beautiful."
Page 83: "There's a lot of hurt in the world. You know, your parents, they're just people. Like you. You think when you get older, you get things all sorted out, or you forget what it felt like to be young. That's not it. You get older, you learn a little about the world, learn what it is to love someone else more than you love yourself..." "The only...things in this world that really matter...[is] the people who love you--and I don't mean your family. Sometimes the people who love you best have no blood relation to you. But in the end, all that will matter to you are the people who really love you..."
Page 89: "Sometimes what we want to be and what the world expects from us are two different things."
Page 136: "With some people it's more about attitude, the way they carry themselves."
Page 242: "You can't go the rest of your life feeling nothing."
Page 253: "Often we believe what we want to think is true..."
