- People are not looking and laughing at you.
- The sins you committed against yourself are forgivable; you can practice forgiveness all you want but nothing will get better if you don't forgive yourself
- Some of the greatest things you do will be things that no one else will see.
- Your cousin would be proud of you and that's all that matters
- We never really grow up
- Not everyone will like you
- They are not right and neither are you
- They are not wrong and neither are you
- Your life is a miracle
- Even at it's darkest, the sky is never totally black
- Migratory birds always find their way back home
- Collecting things might make them more beautiful (notes scrawled on scraps of paper, books)
- Collecting things might take away their light (fireflies, flowers)