“I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.”

“I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.”

“There isso mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.”

“Tell, rather than write, because I have nothing to write with and writing is in any case forbidden. But if it’s a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don’t tell a story only to yourself. There’s always someone else.
Even when there is no one.”

“There was no short answer to this; like so much else, it was a long story. But what really makes any story real is knowing someone will hear it. And understand.”

“Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.”

“It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.”

“A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.”

“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”

“I felt as if I had blundered into someone else's life by chance, discovered I wanted to stay, then blundered back into my own, without a clue, a hint, or a way of finishing the story.”