The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have.

Maybe i would become a mermaid... i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed by sea anemones, caressed by seaweed shawls. I would have a doliphin friend. He would have merry eyes and thick flesh of a god. My fingernails would be tiny shells and my skin would be like jade with light shining through it I would never have to come back up

In order to have bliss you have to be able to accept all the parts of the other, all the wildness and the darkness. You have to be able to hold on.

I try to see the dark and light in everything. This is my way of comforting myself when I am dealing with those emotions.

My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.

You're meant to have whatever your heart desires. Whatever your heart wants that much is already a part of you.

Besides, secretly, without knowing it herself, she had been waiting for a Beast to go to.