Most of the pain we feel is nothing more than a story that needs telling.

I think there were times when I was so afraid of losing you that I forgot I even had you at all.

Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.

Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.

No one truly knows what they will do in a certain situation until they are actually in it. It's very easy to judge someone else's actions by what you assume your own would be, if you were in their shoes. But we only know what we THINK we would do, not what we WOULD do.

You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult the day they turn eighteen. Some people grow up sooner, many grow up later. Some never really do. But just remember that some people in this world are older versions of those same kids we cry for.

No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil.