“That night, when the creature sleeps, when he sleeps, the mother escapes into her daughters room. She tells her daughter that the creatures afraid of her having too much love, too much heart. She t...”

“Shes all the blood Ive ever shed. Shes every time Ive ever thought of death. Shes every time Ive ever looked at happiness and thought, Thats not meant for me.”

“I moonlight as the greatest actor. I smile. I choose the comedy mask every time. I tell those who worry that I am fine, that I always will be. There is nothing to gain from these lies. I win no awa...”

“Sometimes I struggle. Sometimes I falter. Sometimes I live in gray. But always I remember the yarrow youve grown in the spaces of my rib cage. I now love with roses from my heart, with lilacs from ...”

“They will hate you if you are beautiful. They will hate you if you are successful. They will hate you if you are right. They will hate you if you are popular. They will hate you when you get attent...”

“But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be there. And eventually all of th...”

“Cinderella was such a dork. She left behind her glass slipper at the ball and then went right back to her step-monster's house. It seems to me she should have worn the glass slipper always, to make...”

“She shook off the self-recrimination. What-ifs and could-have-beens were not the way to move forward. She knew that from experience.”

“When your bright future, becomes a dull regret of the past, take a deep breath and move on.”

“Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.”

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”

“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”