Quotes from Paris Hilton

One priceless bit of advice my great-grandfather fave my grandfather, and my grandfather gave me: "Success is never final. Failure is never fatal.

It's no big secret that Nicole and I are no longer friends, ... I will not go into the details of what happened. All I will say is that Nicole knows what she did, and that's all I am ever going to say about it.

Skin care. Seriously. If you take nothing else from my story, receive this: Skin care is sacred. Most women who did coke back in the 1990s looked beat by the mid-aughts. That was a strong deterrent for me. I won't say I never tried it, but I wasn't about to sacrifice my complexion for it. Same with cigarettes. You may as well hit yourself in the face with a shovel.

I'm just saying, grace is available to all of us if we make it available to each other.

Wal-Mart, do they like, sell walls there?

There are so many young women who need to hear this story. I don't want them to learn from my mistakes; I want them to stop hating themselves for mistakes of their own. I want them to laugh and see that they do have a voice and their own brand of intelligence and, girl, fuck fitting in.

Fundamentally, I've always been shy—an extroverted introvert,overcompensating with performative social-butterfly behavior.

There is no sin worse in life than being boring—and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do.

the backs of my heels were raw with weeping blisters

Time is the most valuable natural resource we have.

Modesty was a luxury I learned to do without.

Girls like me assumed we'd be judged and belittled, we expected girls to be sexualised and then condemned for their sexuality, punished for both silence and speaking out, told we should accept responsibility for our choices and then called crazy or stupid or slutty if we didn't live by the rules other people chose for us.

I'm really proud of the vocal moments I found in that music. This soundtrack was insane—Rob Zombie, Guns N' Roses, Shawn "Clown" Crahan from Slipknot. We had so much fun on the set. Lots of fun memories.

Trauma often robs a person of the surrounding memories—which is inconvenient, but merciful

she knows the truth: being free and facing the world with all its monsters is better than being safe and leaving your life unlived.

Ultra Naté, "Free

The rise of selfie culture isn't about vanity; it's about women taking back control of our images—and our self-images. I don't think that's a bad thing.

Walmart...do they make walls there?

Things like what happened to me don't happen in a vacuum. Somewhere, I'm certain, there are many other women trying to forget the bad dream of that apartment. Maybe if one of them had told someone, it wouldn't have happened to me. And maybe if I had told someone, it wouldn't have happened to somebody else. That's why I'm telling you now. Because shame is dangerous. Poisonous. And not just for those who carry it.

I took my cue from Mom and stuck to that story. I was happy to cast her and Dad as vigilant, fully present parents. That's who they wanted to be. That's who they are: the parents who would go to the ends of the earth for their children. Only in my case, they went to the wrong end.

The first thing I did was dye my hair back to a Barbie platinum. (I'm a natural blonde, if you don't count hair color.)

I try not to think about how easily I slipped through a crack in the floor. It's like, if you were walking down the street with your friends, and suddenly one of them slipped down an open manhole, you'd notice, wouldn't you? I certainly would! I mean . . . I think I would. I hope I would. Or maybe we're all so focused straight ahead, people slip away when we're not looking.

Secrets are corrosive. Secrets destroy anything you try to layer over them. It's like using concealer to cover a black eye. You can hide it, but that's not the same as healing.

Intrusive thoughts are my nemesis, cutting through my joy