I write because it is while I'm writing that I feel most connected to why we're here. I write because silence is a heavy weight to carry. I write to remember. I write to heal. I write to let the air in. I write as a practice of listening.

When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain.

I’d cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I’d write love poems to the parts of yourself you can’t stand. I’d stand in the shadows of your heart and tell you I’m not afraid of your dark.

The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.

I know a thousand things louder than a soldier's gun; I know the heartbeat of his mother.

I don't believe we're hateful. I think mostly we're just asleep, but the math adds up the same.

Someday we will dare to trade good for true