“Can we just pretend we are wanted?”

You are a multiple choice exam and I have circled all the wrong answers.

Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.

Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.

I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.

I am always becoming a new tragedy. Trading one torture for another. Forever versatile in this becoming.

Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.

Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.

Its okay if all you did this year was survive.

Self Love is just me loving you in reverse.

The last person I adored made me cry and then tenderly wiped the tears off my face. It was the only lesson that taught me; you can love someone and still do horrible, cruel things to them.

We romanticize trauma so much that we have stopped trying to prevent it and started smiling at all the scars it leaves.

Healing can look a lot like violence.

It is terrifying to wonder whether that person you love is a walking red flag or a white flag of surrender dipped in your own blood.

I am tired of only being loved in theory.

Her body is a undiscovered country and she is afraid that someone will colonize it and expect her to thank them for the wreckage.

You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.

Unless you know the individual, it’s very difficult to advise that individual as to what he needs to do.

Imagine doing your job at the highest level to where you’re not needed anymore.

You were created to make somebody else’s life better. Somebody needs your smile. They need your love, your encouragement & your gifts.

Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

Don’t neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today.

We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

Congress needs to make sure families get the help they need.