“Participate in your own dreams, don't just say what you want or complain about what you don't have.”

“everyone tells you what's good for you. they don't want you to find your own answers. they want you to believe theirs.”

“I don't want to live the rest of my life thinking about you and dreaming of what might have been. Stay with me, Allie.”

“But… what about us? What about the past?" she asks blankly.
"The past isn't real. it's just a dream," I say. "Don't mention the past.”

“Don't speak about diversity and just have us there because you want to make it look like it's diverse. Meaningful representation, that's what it's all about, where the characters have real hopes and dreams and lives and it's very sincere to the culture.”

“First you find out what you have, Dad would say. Then you figure out how to make it work for what you need, 'cause you don't get what you want. You get just what you have and no more.”

“If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.”

“People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.”

“You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.”

“But I don't want your throne."
"Then what do you want?"
"You.”