What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

Froth at the top dregs at bottom but the middle excellent.

It is love not reason that is stronger than death.

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

There's all body types, but there's just one size.

A covenant is an agreement between God and man, an accord whose terms are set by God.

I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

The closer to the top, the more grew in me the belief that it might be fulfilled, which most dreaming.

The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.

I got married at a very young age, and of course, for all the wrong reasons, and ended up divorced and lost everything. It was a very difficult time in my life.