“Tomorrow will be better.” “But what if it’s not?” I asked. “Then you say it again tomorrow. Because it might be. You never know, right? At some point, tomorrow will be better.”

“Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.”

“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”

“Better to be strong than pretty and useless.”

“True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.”

“Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”

“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”

“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”