For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.

We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable

You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags.

When I was young, I used to be so jealous of other girls that it crippled me.