生物的美不在于组成它的原子，而在于这些原子如何被组合在一起。

没人说过这很容易。

No book can bring you luck, but every book can help you become yourself.

"The truth is that literature is the only way to overcome death."

Let them see that their words can cut you and you'll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name take it, make it your own. Then they can't hurt you with it anymore.

"We are all broken, that's how the light gets in."

No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part.

A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. Ours are different. My father's spine was a knotted rope, and the skin on his chest was so thin that you could see the ribs pressing out against it.