I choose to politely ask myself to step aside if I am in my own way. If I do not get out of my way, I choose to call a friend who will have me removed.

Even good hearts know how to turn bad touch and genocide into clichés just to make room for more comfort.

Stop congregating in the valley just because an echo sounds good when it agrees with itself.

...all these kids you can't seem to make sense of would stop holding you so far off the edge of your seats if you'd start holding yourselves to the promises you make. We know you're not perfect, because we're not. And I know I'm not perfect, but I believe I was meant to be.

Jordan tattoos the words "forgive me" in thick black letters down the inside of his arm so that when he looks at his wrist he will remember not to hate himself so much. What he keeps forgetting is that there is life after survival.

You're a free-standing landing pad held together by choir claps.

If we were created in God’s image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.