Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.

Do you think there's any way humans can love each other without complication?

When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.

I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.

There's a part of me which has always wanted to hear a man say, "Let me take care of you forever," and I have never heard it spoken before. Over the last few years, I'd given up looking for that person, learned how to say this heartening sentence to myself, especially in times of fear. But to hear it from someone else now, from someone who is speaking sincerely.

Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.

That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.