Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.

I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.

Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.

I am an advocate of honesty and openness, and I think deceit is a dangerous seed to plant and let grow in relationships.

What’s important is that you make the leap. Jump high and hard with intention and heart. Pay no mind to the vision that the commission made up. It’s up to you to make your life. Take what you have and stack it up like a tower of teetering blocks. Build your dream around that.

I set my toothbrush down, then leaned into the mirror and stared into my own eyes. I could feel myself disintegrating inside myself like a past-bloom flower in the wind. Every time I moved a muscle, another petal of me blew away. Please, I thought. Please.

I'd walk and think about my entire life. I'd find my strength again, far from everything that had made my life ridiculous.