“Whatever you do, dont feel sorry for me. I know its the best you can do. Life hasnt hit you in your perfect little bubble yet. Please dont try to understand. Nobody can. No one knows what its like ...”

“May 4, 2006Blog Entry #1There once was a girl who took everything for granted. She had friends.She had good friendsfriends who saw her geeky exterior but loved her anyway, friends who had known her...”

“I remember when I was five playing tag with Cara and her brother. I accidentally got pushed into the side of her trampoline, and I bit the inside of my mouth. Blood gushed everywhere. Caras mom hel...”

“I remember when I was growing up and there would be sick people in the church. I was always so sensitive to them sitting in the pews alone, and I would not pass by without saying hello. But even at...”

“When you go into the psych ward, you cant have anything with you except colored pencils. You cant have any electronics. If you have a drawstring on your pants, a belt, shoelaces, a hood, or extra-l...”

“There is nothing as delicate, as stunning, and as vulnerable as the heart.”

“once sailed neither the ship nor the shore ever remains the same again.”

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”

“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”

“Caterpillars chew their way through ecosystems leaving a path of destruction as they get fatter and fatter. When they finally fall asleep and a chrysalis forms around them, tiny new imaginal cells,...”

“Witnessing the moonrise each month, a person cannot resist noting a modest sense of optimism tugging at his or her enclosed capsule of bodily fluids.”

“And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a nascent patina of shining hairs. My earrings turned back to water and tr...”