“Because when everything is said and done... the world runs on kindness. It simply has to, or we'd never be a able to bear ourselves. It might not seem so to you now, but it will when you're older."...”

“...when I look at my arms, I don't think revolutionary. I think sad, and pain, but not revolutionary.”

“People should know about us. Girls who write their pain on their bodies. ~Louisa”

“Go be absolutely, positively, fucking angelic.”

“Girl listens to radio. Girl finds music. Girl has whole other world.Girl slips on headphones. World gone.”

“Dear Ellis, I have something really fucking angelic to tell you.”

“In painting, three things must be considered - the position of the viewer, the position of the object viewed, and the position of the light that illuminates the object.”

“Talent is nothing more than a pursued interest.”

“Sunlight is painting.”

“Though there had yet to be a victor in this great war that had begun almost three years ago, Maurice had written to her that they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. Freedom to thin...”

“Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.”

“I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air ...”