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

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

I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.

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

Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize - it does.

Effort is the siamese twin of success

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