Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.

..when a war ends, what does that look like exactly? do the cells in the body stop detonating themselves? does the orphanage stop screaming for its mother? when the sand in the desert has been melted down to glass and our reflection is not something we can stand to look at does the white flag make for a perfect blindfold? yesterday i was told a story about this little girl in Iraq, six-years-old, who cannot fall asleep because when she does she dreams of nothing but the day she watched her dog eat her neighbor's corpse. if you told her war is over do you think she can sleep?

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

Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.

For Halloween I'm gonna be emotionally stable. No one's gonna know it's me.

You are not weak just because your heart feels so empty.

This is my body. It is no one's but mine.