Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want, pooled in the shape of a girl.

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.

Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?

I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.

I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens.

I'm falling in love. I am in love. and it's not with Xander, though I do love him. I'm sure of that, as sure as I am of the fact what I feel for Ky is something different.

That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)

Lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back

He's in pain. I am, too. It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain we feel.

Do not go gentle. So I fight. I fight the only way I know how.

He passed through her with his soul caressing hers goodbye. And in that final hour he was with her one last time.

The weekends are too short for sleep!

The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

I'd rather you walk with the bases loaded.

Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.

All artists are illusionists of one kind or another.

The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.