“When I was 7, I wanted to be 8. When I was 8, I wanted to be 12. When I turned 12, I just wanted to be 18. Then after that I stopped wanting to be older…I feel like I’ve spent my whole life so far wishing it all away. Always wishing I was older, wishing I was somewhere else, wishing I could remember and I wishing I could forget too. Wishing I hadn’t ruined so many good things because I was scared or bored.”

“You make me feel that the world is not strange.”

“I think that’s what the people who change our lives always do. They give us permission to be the person we secretly really long to be but maybe don’t feel we’re allowed to be.”

“If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.”

“I am aware that I am less than some people prefer me to be, but most people are unaware that I am so much more than what they see.”