To ugly ducklings everywhere, Don’t worry about those fluffy yellow morons: They’ll never get to be swans.

People trust their eyes above all else – but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there.

You see, that is why it is so easy to fool people with our illusions, Yue. In this world, illusions are usually much kinder than the truth.

Couldn't a woman be happy doing a great many things, just as a man could?

Trusting anyone can get you killed.

Why does it hurt so much? Why does it have to hurt?

It's as if people -- normal people -- are made of silver. Shiny to start with, but tarnished by time, by ill-treatment. Luca... Luca is gold. Nothing in the world could ever make him shine less brightly.

No one knows me. Not anymore

I am so angry all the time, and so sad, and it screams inside me and never stops. Cutting is the only thing that eases me.

I thought then that you were the bravest girl I’d ever met, and nothing that’s happened since has changed my mind.