“Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you”

“Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do”

“Life is hard enough as it is without choosing someone difficult to share it with”

“People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.”

“Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.”

“No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down. ”

“Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it. You could never quite hold someone tightly enough.”

“Well, because sometimes you love someone but they might not be the right
person for you. That takes some time to figure out”

“You don't need someone else's approval to do what you want; just figure it out and do it, damn it!”

“Someone, I was beginning to suspect, had a bit of a gangster complex.
It wasn't really very hard to figure out who. I mean, I was guessing it wasn't Christopher's aunt Jackie.”