“The more you try to protect yourself from love, the more pain you bring to yourself and those that love you”

“Music helps us drift away to places of tranquility, happiness, sadness, & imagination.”

“Don't waste your time being envious of what you don't have or who you want to be. Instead, focus on what you do have and who you can become.”

“Funny how things work themselves out. Things happen that split up family and friends, then things happen that bring them back together. Everyone is in your life for a reason. My hope is for all the...”

“Don't waste your time chasing things that will never be beneficial to your future.”

“When you stop giving attention to someone that takes you for granted, they will notice...trust!”

“Inspirational quotes are only making you more miserable.”

“It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary”

“The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.”

“I hug him tightly. I cant imagine my life without you, Christian. I love you so much it frightens me. Me, too, he breathes. My life would be empty without you. I love you so much.”

“Among my stillness was a pounding heart.”

“I take my hand back, like a leaf letting go. It hurts too much to hang on. So why does it hurt so much to let go?”

“So Lightning says to Mud,What would happen if I struck your blood?And Mud says, Brother, It would hurt, And make me the motherOf every living thing.But, Fire Boy, you aint lifting my grass skirtUnt...”

“Lightning has no mercy.”

“At that instant a dazzling claw of lightning streaked down the length of the sky. The hedge and the distant trees seemed to leap forward in the brilliance of the flash. Immediately upon it came the...”