"I just get so mad at myself sometimes because I remember the cute little girl I used to be and I want so badly just to go back to when things were easy. And when I had nothing to worry about. That’s why I love my friends because they bring me back to that time."

"What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age."

"Because you’re beautiful and you don’t know it. Because you’re smart and you don’t believe it. You’re the kind of girl that guys don’t get over."

"People have scars. In all sorts of unexpected places. Like secret roadmaps of their personal histories. Diagrams of all their old wounds. Most of our wounds heal, leaving nothing behind but a scar. But some of them don’t. Some wounds we carry with us everywhere and though the cut’s long gone, the pain still lingers."

"I encourage you to learn, major in something you love, and work your ass off. Those are the two ingredients- passion and hard work. Everybody that I know that has succeeded in anything I respect have had those two ingredients."