“I'm afraid of everything I don't know.”

“Not knowing who you are is a certain kind of hell.”

“I should feel energized and powerful, invulnerable and potent, but all I feel is lost.”

“Letting go seems like the most powerful thing I could do.And so I do.I just let it all go.And it feels glorious.”

“And where do I go? Where on Earth does a person go when she realizes there's no place for her? You can't possibly try to fit in, because if you do, if you manage to carve out some beautiful niche o...”

“I sit back and try to think. I've been discovering, much to my dismay, that I'm not a criminal mastermind or anything. I'm just brute force and my powers in no way include super-intelligence, which...”

“Fear finds its prey in adolescents for the exact same reason fearlessness does. Every cut, scrape, broken arm or cancer is a cut, scrape, broken arm or cancer that has yet to arrive, that is on the...”

“No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.”

“It pained me to imagine how our twosome appeared to others, marked as those kind of girls who belonged to each other. Those sexless fixtures of high school.”

“I gave up on cussing - I'd run out of words filthy enough - and just started praying.”

“I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don't like being spied on.”

“Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.”

“For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”

“The vast and beautiful world is the home we share together.”

“I stood there a long while, staring at that tree. It looked so strongSo beautiful. Hurt right down the middleBut alive and well. Cee touched my shoulderLightly. Frank? Yes? Come on, brother. Let's ...”