In reality, you don’t ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.

The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.

so i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction.

That’s what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It’s a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion’s not about being holy...Just holier-than-thous.

There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart?