You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.

We are all at risk of something. Of ending up exactly where we began, of failing to imagine and find and know and actualize who we could be. The only difference is the distance of the leap.

I really came to literature through poetry.

He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life.

My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.

Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.

Write like a motherfucker.