💬 Quotes

"When I get my period, I will be a woman. I will have entered the world of adult life."

"I spent my life folded between the pages of books. I lived in stories that had nothing to do with me."

"My pain is a symphony that only I can hear."

"I want to be the kind of person who can say 'I'm sorry' and mean it. I want to be the kind of person who can say 'I love you' and feel it."

"You are a weapon, and you are a child, and you are a ghost, and you are a queen."

"I am not a fragile thing, and I am not a broken thing. I am a storm, and I am a force, and I am a wildfire."

"Hope is a dangerous thing. It is a flickering light in the dark that can be blown out by the smallest breath of reality."

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."

"The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them."

"If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you."

"It was a time when the world seemed to be composed of nothing but long, golden afternoons and the smell of cut grass."

"Some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright."

"We are all dying, it's just a matter of how we spend the time between the beginning and the end."

"Good night, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England."

"Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own."

"I’m not a doctor because I wanted to be a doctor. I’m a doctor because I’m the only one who is."

"The world is full of people who are not going to be happy, and they all want to know what to do about it."

"Everything is a choice. You can choose to be useful, or you can choose to be happy. They are rarely the same thing."

"Being useful is the only way to be happy. If you aren't useful, you're just taking up space."

"The only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—vet them, tolerate them, forgive them—and let them vet, tolerate, and forgive you."