“Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You ha...”

“I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that”

“I wake abruptly, my breath jagged and heart racing, my mouth stale, and I know immediately that's it. I'm awake. The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.”

“To have my hopes raised and dashed again, it's like cold steel twisting in my gut.”

“I'm well aware that there is no job more important than that of raising a child, but the problem is that it isn't valued.”

“A tiding of magpies: One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told”

“I am the perfect version of me.”

“But if you tame me, then weshall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, Ishall be unique in all the world.”

“I don't want the world to keep turning without me on it.”

“Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.”

“While you were born with a self-worth and is a gift of God to you to begin your life with, your net worth is what you build here on earth and what you choose to do with the resources and gifts that...”

“An exceptional future can only be built on the transformation of the mess Ive made out of my past, not the elimination of that mess.”

“There is no second place for doing first rate work.”

“You can have everything you want if you can put your heart and soul into everything you do.”

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”