"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

"You weren’t there, you didn’t see,” he said. “There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing."

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of second-rate version of somebody else."

"I said it would be better if we weren’t friends, not that I didn’t want to be."