This is how you survive the unsurvivable, this is how you lose that which you cannot bear to lose, this is how you reinvent yourself, overcome your abusers, fulfill your ambitions and meet the love of your life: by following what is true, no matter where it leads you.

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

Love is a helium-based emotion; Love always takes the high road.

Nothing made sense to me anymore. I knew I was young, I knew I was small. But I was worried that I might already be ruined.

The most I would do was use the shadow tool in Photoshop to bring out the muscular rips in my stomach, which were honestly there. Beneath the fat.

We haven't slept together. But we've napped

There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.