“If I’ve learned one lesson from all that’s happened to me, it’s that there’s no such thing as the biggest mistake of your existence. There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”

“How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn't a question of survival at all. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care.”

“You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.”

‘i am trying to wander more, i am trying to breathe more, to love my lostness’

‘since my house burned down i now own a better view of the rising moon’

"You'll always be sad about this," she said softly. "But it doesn't mean you made the wrong choice. It's just something that you have to carry."

“We are all a people in need. We are not perfect. We are not machines. We make mistakes. We need grace. We need compassion. We need help at times. We need other people. And that’s okay.”

“It is the goal of law to protect the vulnerable against the predator and the exploiter, but the law cannot eradicate evil from the human heart.”

“Sometimes it's as if I'm composed of nothing but symptoms of illness, I am a phantom built out of pain.”

‘the sure sign that the soul is awake, is that it is outraged’

‘you deserve to be in environments that bring out the softness in you, not the survival in you’

'don’t you dare shrink yourself for someone else’s comfort do not become small for people who refuse to grow'

“It’s not my responsibility to be beautiful. I’m not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.”

“Anxiety is an old friend, one that stays a few nights longer than they should and forgets to shut the door on the way out.”

improving your life can be as simple as letting the rawest version of yourself come to light and allowing others to accept it for what it is

“Everything has changed and yet, I am more me than I’ve ever been."