“The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child’s heart is worth.”

“If I could give one message to the bullies, it would be this: You are incredible. You are bound for great things. You have the potential to be anybody you want to be. There are people who believe in you. There are people who love you. Be what we know you can be, even if you don’t believe in yourself right now.”

“I promise you it doesn’t matter what you believe, how strongly you live your beliefs, or how true your beliefs are. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you are in the wrong. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks your beliefs are senseless or illogical. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you have it all wrong. In fact, there are a lot of people in this world who do.”

“What haunts me far more than anything I’ve ever done are the things I haven’t done.”

“Be a little less obsessed with how I live my life and a little more obsessed with how you live your own.”

“Think about the word mould for a moment. A mould is a device into which one crams and smashes something until it becomes the shape that they desire. Don't spend your life letting other people destroy you while they try and force you into their moulds.”

“I do not see the point in dressing and acting and speaking in a way that makes you feel more comfortable and me feel less comfortable.”

“Nobody on Earth can tell you how you should live your life. Nobody with any real authority anyway.”

“I have learned that trying to control other people’s opinions of you is the fastest possible route to unhappiness.”

“Don’t judge me for escaping the stresses and cruelty of the world differently than you do.”

“So many people hate me and love me for the exact same reasons. This is all the proof I need that my opinion about myself is the only opinion I should ever care about.”