Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

For official record, announce instructor, the state requires no epic hero. No strive achieve personal celebrity of spotlight and applause. Lectures instructor, the state desires best ideal perform as mediocre. No gain attention showboat. No buffoon. Best effort so occur average. Suppress climbing ego. Become ordinary. Invisible.

I'm not so much a good friend as I'm the savior who wants you to worship him forever.

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

More and more people are defining themselves not by what they are about, but by what they are against, what they are overcoming, the thing that is wrong with them.

Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.

A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.