“I took off my glasses while you were yelling at me once more than once so as not to see you see me react. Should've put 'em, should've put 'em on againso I could see you see me sincerely yelling back.”

“I took off my glasses while you were yelling at me once more than once so as not to see you see me react. Should've put 'em, should've put 'em on againso I could see you see me sincerely yelling back.”

“It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.”

“But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.”

“My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?”

“You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.”

“When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.”

“What's really good is African drum music.”

“I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.”

“There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.”

“No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.”

“The early cars already are drawing deep breaths past my door. And last night's phrases sick with lack of basis are still writhing on my floor.”