After twelve years of trying, I just decided to stop missing.

The trees were friendly, they gave me rest and shadowed refuge. Slipping through them, I felt safe and competent. My whole body was occupied. I had little energy to think or worry.

Beneath hot sun, desert roses bloomed. Under cold moon, I still refused to.

Water was liquid silver, water was gold. It was clarity—a sacred thing. Drinking was no longer something to take for granted. I’d never needed to consider water before.

There was so little I wanted to carry. Packing my backpack took me all of four minutes

The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard.

I’d believed I needed to be steady in myself before I could function with others—but surviving alone no longer felt like a good way either.

I realized that the most empowering important thing was actually simply taking care of myself.

I was promising myself strength.I had to write it, say it, make the effort and fake it before I actually believed I could do it.

I was the director of my life, it was already true, and I would soon lead myself to my dreamed-of destinations.It was the task of my one thousand miles of solitude.

I no longer needed to peel myself of my skin, or to hide. To Dash the colorless ephemeral things that existed just beneath my surface were as vivid as the beauty marks he traced on my cheek.

Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

Nurture the Power & Wisdom of your Own Inner Strengths, with Good Intent.

The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.

Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. . . . Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. . . . Ignore the inconsequential!

And now we're lethal, infected with D'Evils

I like my afterglow with you in motion. I measure time by how your body sways.

Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?

My greatest weapon is mute prayer.

Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.