Funny, how it took a little bit of pain to remember that certain parts of yourself were alive.

It was time to let go of the mad desire to remember. It was time to start living whatever life would come. In the present, not the past.

Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.

No sky Leila had seen before could compare to the beauty she was seeing above her. It didn't feel like some accident of nature but rather something that was purposefully unleashed on the world.

People go entire lives without figuring out exactly what they want from life. You already have it, and the future you and your dad have planned out for you in going to take it away from you.

What if she was supposed to be a painter, but no one ever gave her a brush?

I keep expecting to bump into you two on the road, but maybe the universe isn’t yet ready to handle you and me side by side again.

She wanted to reach up to the night and dig her fingers into it, beg it to stay just a little bit longer.

I felt you before I knew of your existence, maybe it was a hint from the universe to continue on the yellow brick road, so when I would find you along my travels I would simply just know.

Ignite the fire of loving kindness in your soul, fuel that fire with understanding and compassion for others, and start a bonfire of love worldwide.

ON PROBLEMSOur choicest planshave fallen through, our airiest castlestumbled over, because of lineswe neatly drewand later neatlystumbled over.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free.

There are many things that I don't understand.

Why can't we for once have a meeting in Starbucks?

Instead of always asking yourself why so-and-so acts this or that way, learn to ask: "What's inside of me that wants to hurt itself over how anyone else acts?"

Actions are remembered long after words are forgotten.

I cut hundreds of pages from my book because I felt myself being reiterative or redundant. Sometimes I wanted to leave just hints of things.

My girlfriends are my life, but I'm also one of those girls who can hang out with the guys.