“You have to understand yourself before you can understand anything else.”

“We fall asleep to fairy tales, and the world rotates and revolves and time passes and we grow up and we understand that they are false. There are not heroes and princesses and villains. It's not that easy.”

“It wasn't the aloneness that Liz minded. It was the silence. It echoed.”

“He embraced his weirdness, and it was nice.”

“Liz Emerson held so much darkness within her that closing her eyes didn't make much a difference at all.”

“But there was something terrifying taking over her thoughts, and it wouldn't leave. Out of seven billion sharing the planet with her, not one of them knew what was going through her head. Not one of them knew that she was lost. Not one of them asked.”

“In that moment, Liz Emerson felt that she was forever looking up at people who were much, much better than she could ever be, and the only thing she was really good at was pulling them down to her level.”

“She had been desperate to feel something, anything. She needed a window, because she had broken her heart throwing it at locked doors.”

“There's more to life than cause and effect.”

“You have to understand yourself before you can understand anything else.”

“If there's one person in the world you should be with, there must be one person in the world you shouldn't be with.”