Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.

March 4th, the only day that is also a sentence

I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.

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.

Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn’t unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn’t want to.

My heart is really pounding," I said. "That's how you know you're having fun," Margo said.

I was thinking about this girl you love so much," she said, "And this place I love so much. And how that happens. How you can just fall into it.