Maybe some people need to believe in a proper and omnipotent God to pray, but I don't.

Night falls fast. Today is the past.

We didn't talk much. But we didn't need to.

Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy.

Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be. It depends on what we do with the pain. If we offer it back to God, He will use it to do great things in us & through us, because suffering is fertile... it an grow new life.

You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.

I call my mom from the car. I tell her that Neutral Milk Hotel is playing at the Hideout and she says, "Who? What? You're hiding out?" And then I hum a few bars of one of their songs and Mom says, "Oh, I know that song. It's on the mix you made me," and I say, "Right," and she says, "Well you have to be back by eleven," and I say, "Mom this is a historical event. History doesn't have a curfew," and she says, "Back by eleven," and I say, "Fine. Jesus," and then she has to go cut cancer out of someone.