Fear is a fickle friend who will loyally stand by your side as long as you allow it to diminish you.

When my worldwas nothing but darknessI set my soul on fire.

I lived for so long without you, only dreaming of the concept of you. And, now that I know you, I can't imagine going back there... to a me that didn't know your name.

She chose messy, she chose wild. She chose life on her own terms.

We can feel damaged and sad and mad and know that it doesn’t make us any less worthy than when we didn’t feel that way.

Sometimes, the emptiness comes to fill the space between my heart and my head. It consumes every thought, every corner of my mind, like demons that can’t be put to bed.

Not many get to see this side of him. So, if you do, know that you’re lucky.

There is a reasonthat the worldis not black and white, for chaosdemands color.

I promise permanence. I promise persistence. I promise that falling in love was just the beginning for us.

So many questionsbut nothing to say, in this current momentwe are still so farfrom the answers.

Falling in love with you was out of my control, but I do have a say in what happens next. And, I will choose to stay in love with you through everything this life throws at us.

I hate when I look in my closet and find clothes instead of Narnia.

You aren't allowed to feel special, but no one knows the specific ways you are in pain.

The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever.

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

It's so much healthier to acknowledge we're fluid and constantly in flux than to pretend to live in a universe where everything is fixed.

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

I think happy and hope is more hopeful when you acknowledge that there's awful things too.

The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material.

You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.

What's hot today isn't likely to be hot tomorrow. The stock market reverts to fundamental returns over the long run. Don't follow the herd.