detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.

I still don’t know if this is a good quality or a bad one, to be able to be in the moment and then step out of it.

How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?

the world loves stupid labels. i wish we got to choose our own.

Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.

Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my life and having it feel right.

Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.