“you are not the storythey keep telling about youover and over again.you are not even the storyyou keep telling yourself.there are no linesthat can hold you.there are not enough wordsfor all the mor...”

“the opening,the breaking,the falling apartis always so quick.the hurting,the healing,the putting back togetheris always too long.”

“i can't hold onto love.i'm not gentle enough.i always end upcrushing the thingin between my fingertips.”

“everything i know about loveis that it hurtsand is almost always never returnedthe way you want it to.but i have hopebecause i do not know everything.”

“i am awake and aliveand swollen and heavywith love.”

“i took it off.i did not want to carry it with me anymore.”

“Don't play the victim role, empower yourself instead. Place yourself and others around you in a position to win.”

“Its that short-lived happiness, which empowers us to bear; long-lasting pain in living.”

“Unlike the world that points out your flaws to ridicule you, when GOD points out your flaws, it's because He want to walk you out of it.”

“Remember that self-doubt is as self-centered as self-inflation. Your obligation is to reach as deeply as you can and offer your unique and authentic gifts as bravely and beautifully as you're able.”

“Sometimes the only thing we can do for people is pray.”

“You simply cannot know the depth of your magnificence without the contrast of life.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”