No matter how many vitamins you take, how much Pilates, you'll lose your keys, your hair and your memory.

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.

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.

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

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.

So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen to me. It was that bad. It was the fault & responsibility of the adult. I was—and am—innocent.” The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis

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.