It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

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

If You Don’t Claim Your Humanity, You Will Become A Statistic.

You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore." I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk

This is why I loved the support groups so much, if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. Everything else about their checkbook balance and radio songs and messy hair went out the window. You had their full attention. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't just telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.

I say let me never be complete, I say may I never be content,I say deliver me from Swedish furniture, I say deliver me from clever arts, I say deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth,I say you have to give up! I say evolve, and let the chips fall where they may!

They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.