There are some days when no matter what I say it feels like I'm far away in another country & whoever is doing the translating has had far too much to drink.

There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.

These are little packets of light and you need to plant them early in the year and remember to mark where they were because lots of times they look like weeds in the beginning and it's not until later that you see how beautiful they really are.

I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are.

You're not going to see people like this again for a long time, he said and I said I always saw people like this & he looked at me for a moment and said, You're not from around here, are you?

Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.

I've always like the time before dawn because there's no one around to remind me who I'm supposed to be, so it's easier to remember who I am.