The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.

The place of true healing is a fierce place. It's a giant place. it's a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light.

Be brave enough to break your own heart.

You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.

I was a terrible believer in things,but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was skeptical. I didn't know where to put my faith,or if there was such a place,or even what the word faith meant, in all of it's complexity. Everything seemed to be possibly potent and possibly fake.