Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back … then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else.

Stay strong.

Others fear anyone who can smile and laugh even though they are clearly flawed.

The problem I have is that, no matter how distant I get from a person, I will always care about them no matter what. Even if they want nothing to do with me.

Though Mean Girls was rated PG-13 for “sexual content, language, and some teen partying,” that was a rating Paramount had to fight for, says Waters. “We had lots of battles with the ratings board on the movie. There was the line, ‘Amber D’Lessio gave a blow job to a hot dog,’ which eventually became ‘Amber D’Lessio made out with a hot dog.’ Which is somehow weirder! That’s the thing we found: When you’re trying to make a joke obey the rules and not use any bad words, it can actually become seamier, even.” Still, there were some things that Waters simply refused to change. “The line in the sand that I drew was the joke about the wide-set vagina. The ratings board said, ‘We can’t give you a PG-13 unless you cut that line.’ We ended up playing the card that the ratings board was sexist, because Anchorman had just come out, and Ron Burgundy had an erection in one scene, and that was PG-13. We told them, ‘You’re only saying this because it’s a girl, and she’s talking about a part of her anatomy. There’s no sexual context whatsoever, and to say this is restrictive to an audience of girls is demeaning to all women.’ And they eventually had to back down.”

Believe me when I tell you that everything is temporary. Everything. There’s not a thing in the world that will not change, including you.

There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.

Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.