Caitlin Ann

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

I wish when people decided to walk out of your life, they’d take all the memories you have of them with them. It’s easier to let go of something that means nothing to you.

Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.

i hope that there is beauty in your memories, and i hope it doesn’t haunt you. And if it does, then i hope there is someone who will talk you through the night and remind you of the promise of the sunrise, that beauty keeps coming, that there are futures worth waiting for and fighting for, and that you were made to dream.”

And the harsh reality of life is that you are going to hurt. You’re going to cry over a silly boy - your heart’s going to be broken. But you have to pull yourself together so people don’t see how vulnerable you are. Once people see vulnerability, they take advantage of you. And the whole process starts all over again.