Need is not quite belief.

Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.

To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.

Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking about it either; I occasionally feel like I tremendously need others to talk about it as well.

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

For I could not read or speak and on the long nights I could not turn the moon off or count the lights of cars across the ceiling.

Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.