You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s there in their dreams.

I was never meant to be this thing.

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.

I've been shot down so many times, I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself.

To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.

Look at an avalanche, and see that we are at our most powerful when we let go. Look at a flower, and see that we are at our most beautiful when we open up.

But we are more than genteel or civilized/ we are an idea in the process of being realized.