I walked all those miles, I learned all those lessons. It's as if my new life was the gift I got at the end of a long struggle.

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 knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.

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

Real love moves freely in both directions. Don't waste your time on anything else.

Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.

You get to define the terms of your life.