“No one told me how hard it was going to be to find myself.”

Everyday healing has a different face. Sometimes familiar. Sometimes a stranger.

With you, I am everything I’ve ever been told I’m not.

Its better to walk into the fire than never feel the heat of the flames.

We both believed in love but one of us believed more than the other.

If you can learn to love yourself you’ll find a great company in your alone.

I am a paradox learning to be linear.

Please stop trying to make me the ghost of your past lover.

I’m hurting because I can hear your heartbreaking from two rooms over.

“What if” has me on a collared leash.

The rivers and the roads all lead to bigger things. Your path may seem narrow but you’re time is coming.

Do you think of me when you catch your reflection?

I fell in love like it was just another errand to run.

Sometimes joy hides in forgotten places.

Stop watering dead relationships and expecting them to grow.

I’m so obsessed with the falling in love that every time I meet a man, I lose myself in him.

She was only a star within my entire galaxy but you looked at her and thought she was the sun.

It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

If I come to work every day and do my job, work as hard as I can, be a great teammate, the rest of that stuff will take care of itself.

Donald [Trump]. I understand rules are very hard for you. They’re very confusing.

Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.

I know that the hard work got me here. And the day I stop working hard, this can all go away.

I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me,

Guys like Larry Bird — he played so hard, he wants everybody else to play hard. That’s not unreasonable. Any coach would want that and demand that.

I want you to take a good, hard look at me, America, because this is exactly what you’ve got coming.