A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that’s why you can see the grand canyon from the moon.

None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.

That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.

Lately I've been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and how I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be. And when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breath, it essentially comes out like this: before I die, I want to be somebody's favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything 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.

Our insanity is not that we see people who aren’t there. It’s that we ignore the ones who are.

If you ever reach enlightenment. will you remember how to laugh?

I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror
 on a day you’re feeling good. 
I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror
 on a day you’re feeling bad.
 I wanna know the first person who taught you your beauty
 could ever be reflected on a lousy piece of glass.