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.

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.

We so seldom understand each other. But if understanding is neither here nor there, and the universe is infinite, then understand that no matter where we go we will always be smack dab in the middle of nowhere. All we can do is share some piece of ourselves, and hope that it’s remembered. Hope that we meant something to someone

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

If you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror.

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

We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.