“Maybe I’ve dragged myself through the mud since then, but even mud hardens beneath your shoes. I must be standing on a mountain of it by now. And no one can touch me from way the hell up here.”

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.

You will eventually lose control, and when you do – when you lose every last shred of it until you can’t see red from black, right from wrong—I will be here. Ready to back you up, the way you should be doing for me.

Somewhere along the way, she weaved herself so deeply into my veins I can’t fucking inhale without her breathing life into me.

Embrace the glorious mess that you are.

But I was still weird enough that people otherwise left me alone.

There’s a difference between loving someone as they are whole, and wanting to see all of their pieces. I’ve understood this for a while now, and I don’t fault anyone for it.

The conversation between your fingers and someone else’s skin. This is the most important discussion you can ever have.

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.

A mouse trying hard to come off as a lion.

He doesn’t look at me like he’s owed anything. He looks at me like I’ve already given him everything.

Be you. All of you. Without consequence. Without judgment.

I need someone who sees the fire in my eyes and wants to play with it.

Life is going to break your heart. Remember to say thank you.

Funny how being fucked isn’t nearly as pleasing as I remember.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Don’t play with the Devil, he always cheats.

Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.

No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there’s someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

This is the hardest part for me. Just the waiting – the waiting to fight. The work has all been done, and you just have to wait.

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

When I went to jail, reality hit so hard that it took my breath away, took my stance away, took my strength away. I was there buck naked, humiliated, sitting in my own crap and urine – this is a metaphor. My ego had run off. Your ego is the biggest coward.