“Some of the worst places I've ever lived in were fear, pain, and shame. The cost of living was so high, your only choice was a slow death.”

“I will not apologise when the shape of my heart offends you.”

“Watch them describe you to somebody else and see how it long it takes for them to bring up your physical description that'll tell you all.”

“One of the scariest things in the world, is that other people can make life-changing decisions for you.”

“...Cause the heart has no manual settings.”

“If you've never gotten your heart broken, you've not used it well.”

“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”

“Everybody has a home team: Its the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens. Its the people who, near or far, know everything thats wrong with you and love you an...”

“The more you condemn yourself for thinking or feeling a certain way, the more you feel stuck within your own body and mind.. What if you went the other way and embraced it so totally that it was as...”

“Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didnt want to go to school: half the work in the world was done by people who didnt feel so good today.”

“I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.”

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”

“Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.”

“Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows.”

“We were as big as the ocean, but as fragile as an ego.”