The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."

She's simply too strange. We can't relate to her, she speaks in a funny way, she comes from an odd place. So we can't relate to her, and when you can't relate to somebody, you don't envy them. The closer two people are -- in age, in background, in the process of identification -- the more there's a danger of envy, which is incidentally why none of you should ever go to a school reunion, because there is no stronger reference point than people one was at school with.