I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.

It's impossible to feel good about yourself if you are doing things that you aren't proud of. . . . It's essential that you . . . [do] things you can respect and admire.

There is a comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.

Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life.

Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.

There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being into a whole one.That is spirituality.

Allow yourself to release the emotions you have struggled all your life to contain.