I am a tourist of the emotions, visiting only the most well-worn spots. It is romantic, that is, a distortion, to imagine whole lives from the barest observation.

You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn't? What if you had to stay you forever?

His heart cracked open and flooded all the space around it.

Believe not in the reality, but believe in the possibility.

What I do know is that there are two kinds of pain in this life: risk and regret. I'd rather live with the first than the second.

Always trust strangers, it's the people you know that let you down.

I know its corny, but laughter is a two-way gift, and hearing people laugh just warms me through and through.

Mariah and Whitney Houston were my goddesses growing up.

If you could runne, as you drinke, you might catch a hare.

Don't worry about yesterday it ended last night at midnight.

No small thing, a bee's sting When it enters the heart Not so benign, the growing vine When it tears stone apart

Work is the only device I know of.

BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there.