Too many locks, not enough keys. - Sarah Dessen

"Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself."

"When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed."

"Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong."

"It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities. Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening."

"Look,” he said, “the point is there’s no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you’re left with a choice. Either hope for the best, or just expect the worst.”If you expect the worst, you’re never disappointed,” I pointed out.Yeah, but who lives like that?"