“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.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”