A knife, it felt like a knife, and I'd discovered that despite everything that's happened, I still had an endless untapped potential for getting hurt.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

You can't be beautiful," Brandy says about a thousand times, "until you feel beautiful.

The weather today is an increasing trend towards denial.

My theory is that church used to be that place. Instead of being a place where you went to look good, it was a place where you could risk going every week to look your worst.

Years of living in the hope that what you'll get will be better than what you have. Years of looking and feeling worse in the hope that you might look better.

Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own.