Because I feel no anger toward my mother. Only loss, and loss is a feeling you can’t fight your way out of as easily.

Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?

Writing, painting, singing -- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives.

When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.

Because I feel no anger toward my mother. Only loss, and loss is a feeling you can’t fight your way out of as easily.

How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?

I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.