Honestly, I'd rather be anywhere else. Even home, where my dad begins almost every conversation with, "You should lose the black clothes and wear something with color." Please. Like I want to look like every Barbie clone in Hell High, a.k.a. Oklahoma's insignificant Halfway High School. Ironically, Dad doesn't appreciate the bright blue streaks in my originally blond/now-dyed-black hair. Go figure. That's color, right?

— Gena Showalter

In the mirror we see a stranger, Not the person we were born to be, For we are all pretending, Just for everyone to see.

— Anthony T. Hincks

Isn’t Hollywood a dump — in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

My friends think I'm outgoing, but I don't travel as much outside as I do from the inside.

— Ana Claudia Antunes

What do you do when you’re in a room of vampires and the most dangerous one tells you that you know too much? You bolt. What did I do? I hyperventilated.

— Tijan