“You will have bad times but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to.”

“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”

“Be with someone who is proud of you, someone you can laugh with, someone who listens to you, understands you, who treats you well and makes you a priority.”

“Maybe home is nothing but two arms holding you tight when you’re at your worst.”

“Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are.”

“Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.”

“When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.”

“Be softer with you. You are a breathing thing. A memory to someone. A home to a life.”

“Please be patient with me. Sometimes when I’m quiet it’s because I need to figure myself out. It’s not because I don’t want to talk. Sometimes there are no words for my thoughts.”