everything has a rhythm

“How much of the world must we pass through to arrive at ourselves?”

“Is there any part of me that doesn’t go directly to my heart?”

“The woman you are becoming will cost you people, relationships, spaces, and material things. Choose her over everything.”

“Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.”

“Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?”

“I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn’t forget, I’m alive, I know I’m alive, I mustn’t forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.”

“But my anxious heart is eating up my body, eating up my nerves, eating up my brain. I feel this poison slowly filling my veins - every particle becoming slowly tainted…. I am never, never calm, never for an instant.”

“There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.”

“I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.”

“Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”

“The flower does not see its own beauty.”