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“In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I’m not.”
― I'll Give You the Sun
― I'll Give You the Sun

“What an uncomfortable, terrible source of shame it is for the world that the victim is so often the one left with the most empathy for others.”
― Beartown
― Beartown

“Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people,â€� I say. “Maybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time.â€� Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.”
― I'll Give You the Sun
― I'll Give You the Sun

“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places

“You have been in every way all that anyone could be.… If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
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