“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.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”