You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are.

What I know about living is the pain is never just ours Every time I hurt I know the wound is an echo So I keep a listening to the moment the grief becomes a window When I can see what I couldn’t see before, through the glass of my most battered dream, I watched a dandelion lose its mind in the wind and when it did, it scattered a thousand seeds. So the next time I tell you how easily I come out of my skin, don’t try to put me back in just say here we are together at the window aching for it to all get better

To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village.

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.

How many wars will it take us to learn that only the dead return?

I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but I’ve seen flowers bloom at midnight. I’ve seen kites fly in gray skies and they were real close to looking like the sunrise, and sometime it takes the most wounded wings the most broken things to notice how strong the breeze is, how precious the flight.

I thought, "The flowers, save the flowers..." I never thought for a second we wouldn't save the people