What paper planes and empty seats most have in common is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.

The future gets no say in who we are.

Pretend – inside your skin – you've got a friend, who's willing to give you everything you ever wanted in exchange for all you've ever been.

Stop inviting walls into wide open spaces.

Hearts don't break, y'all. They bruise and get better.

I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better.

If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity, plug it into an amplifier and rethink yourself.

The first time my town saw the sky it sucker-punched us in the throat, left us breathless, said, I'm gonna keep you awake some nights without touching you. You'll make it up, the pain, you always do.

If I didn't have so much of this life all wrong I would have gotten it right by now.

You are the home I point to that lives in my chest.

I'm ready to kill something. I'll probably only get as far as my brain cells, but I am going to kill them.

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

To think that we grasp the fullness of life is to say that by holding a mere drop of water in our hands we are able to understand the immensity of the ocean.

It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.

Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it.

The garden was full of sorrowSongbirds and unusual winds whistled a rhymeClouds caused to appear and cast down darknessFor this was the first day the sun didn't shine

If we must put our head into the lion’s mouth, let us make certain that he chokes upon our flesh!

For this game you need, above all things, to be in a tranquil frame of mind.

I've wanted to be with you since the first time you turned me down. I've just been waiting for you to come around.

No one will ever write a fantasy novel better than The Hobbit.

We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be.