“I dont need to conform to your ideas of beauty”

“That smile could move mountains. It could also break hearts.”

“The opening notes of a song began, some plucking of guitar strings. I knew the melody. It was Maroon 5s She Will Be Loved. As pop songs went, it was pretty damn good, a bit of a favorite of mine.”

“Don't make me kill you at this hour in the morning Jimmy. It's not civilized.”

“Two-thirty in the morning was kind of a bitch as times went. It fell into the in-between, nowhere land. Too late to get a really good night's sleep, but much too early to start the day.”

“Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation. (p.232)”

“Do you think I'm pretty?I think you're beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.”

“As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”

“Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.”

“If you want to conform, then how can you change?”

“If I dont know who I am apart from everyone else, I probably need to spend some time apart from everyone else.”