It is impossible to erase my choices.

I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.

If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.

It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do.

I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.

I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.

You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.

I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart.

I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.

I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.

I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.

Faith is fruitfulness.

So often we operate from ideas of love that don’t fit our reality.

Fear leads to worry. Worry leads to depression. But faith overcomes fear and worry.

How unfortunate, considering I have decided to loathe him for eternity

I've always said I'm a teacher at heart.

Leaders goal: Don't be afraid of vulnerability & transparency, (without being pitiful). People respond to authenticity.

Show me what you can do; don't tell me what you can do.

If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.

Don't always come when you're called.

The first time you face up to a googly you're going to be in trouble if you've never faced one before