My experiences with violence in schools still echo throughout my life but standing to face the problem has helped me in immeasurable ways.

If you think for one second no one knows what you've been going through; be accepting of the fact that you are wrong, that the long drawn and heavy breaths of despair have at times been felt by everyone - that pain is part of the human condition and that alone makes you a legion.

Scrape the grey sky clean. Realize every grey cloud is a smoke screen to blind us from the truth, and the truth is whether we see them or not the sun and moon are still there, and always there is light.

Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.

That’s what we were told—stand up for yourself. But that’s hard to do if you don’t know who you are.

If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.

I've been told that people in the army do more by 7:00 am than I do in an entire day But if I wake at 6:59 am and turn to you to trace the outline of your lips with mine I will have done enough and killed no one in the process.