“Heaven left a hole in your heart. But its up to you to choose if that hole will be filled with pain, anger, and the eternal darkness of loss . . . Or if you will choose to fill it with light and lo...”

“Hershey Pennsylvania was self-proclaimed as the Sweetest Place On Earth, but less advertised than chocolate, it was also home to one of the states largest Childrens Hospitals. The streets lined wit...”

“Youve got to trust yourself. Be gentle with yourself. And listen to yourself. Youre the only person who can get you through this now. Youre the only one who can survive your story, the only one who...”

“Theres something about the amount of time that has gone by that makes her feel like a survivor. Theres something in the way that following her heart, despite it being perpetually broken, has made h...”

“She thought about how in that moment life was perfect because it was simple. One truck, a world asleep, and a million stars.It didnt matter where they were going. She was just existing.”

“But in all of the sadness, when youre feeling that your heart is empty, and lacking, Youve got to remember that grief isnt the absence of love. Grief is the proof that love is still there.”

“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging...”

“She didn't belong anywhere and she never really belonged to anyone. And everyone else belonged somewhere and to someone. People thought she was too wonderful. But she only wanted to belong to someo...”

“Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and se...”

“I was happy, but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about i...”

“Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be r...”

“I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are goin...”