Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing what you have to do.

Not everyone wants to know everything their partner did. Maybe it's enough to say, "Things aren't going well in our marriage. I've made mistakes. I don't think you've been a good partner to me. How do we go forward together?" I think there's a different answer for every couple. But I think intimacy is asking that question.

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 felt something growing in me that was strong and real.

My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.

Write like a motherfucker.

But if I could go back in time, I wouldn't do a single thing differently. What if all those things I did were the things that got me here?