The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love.

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

It is so hard to leave-until you leave.

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

The way we still essentializ, we're constantly essentializing people as merely poor, or merely other, and in the end you can't have a relationship with people. I think the biggest job of adulthood is to learn to imagine other people complexly.