Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of words and not one of them can save me.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

There is a place to stand where you can see so many lights you forget you are one of them.

... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.

Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.

I know it's me that needs this moment. Your hand to hold my heart still cares. A thought I will hold when I wake in the morning, when I turn to you and you're not there.

People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don't respond to that the way I used to

Do you even really know how vampires are made?' 'Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love each other very much.

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things - they save you.

Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place.

Truly, this world can go on without us, if we would but think so.

The government that governs best, governs best!

It’s not the place that matters, It’s how good you are when you get there.” -Rylann

Every time I scratch apathy, I find powerlessness beneath it. Humans care, they just don't know what to do about it.

You need to have your eyes open because it's really scary what's happening.