I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free.

"The Dream of a Common Language" by Adrienne Rich. I carried it the entire hike. On my first night, when I felt like I was in too deep, I read the first poem out loud to myself over and over.

You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.

You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying.

When going on a date with someone they met online, the number-one fear that straight women have is going on a date with a serial killer. The number-one fear straight men have is going on a date with a fat woman. That says everything.

What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

There isn't a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart.