“Give me a god that I could relate to. A god with water in her eyes and doesn’t have tablets of laws. Give me a god that I could relate to. A god who’s afraid of change for the fear of becoming less of a deity. A god who doubts if she truly does exist for the absence of knowing what brought her into existence. A god who understands meaninglessness and absurdity. Give me a god that I could relate to. A god who is lonely. A god who wallows in self-pity. A god who’s not silent. A god who screams like a woman running from war. Give me a god that I could relate to. A god who is insecure. A god who doesn’t like the way she looks in her cosmic mirror. A god who didn’t plan on inventing beauty. A god who is kind. A god who has mastered the art of feeling nothing as she goes back to sleep while the world hurtles into further chaos. Give me a god that I could relate to. A god who’s not a mystery but an art. A song that could be sang every time a sad soul takes their own life by hate. A painting that could be seen on a starless night. A poem that could only be heard in silence. Give me a god that I could relate to. A god who’s not immortal. A god who accepts that she doesn’t know everything. A god who doesn’t have a daughter to cry with. A god who’ll eventually die alone.”

“I am a child with an old soul. I see magic in everything, but at the same time, everything tires me because I feel everything so very deeply.”

“Reading isn’t important because it helps to get you a job. It’s important because it gives you room to exist beyond the reality you’re given. It is how humans merge. How minds connect. Dreams. Empathy. Understanding. Escape.”

“Learning to believe in yourself won’t always be easy. There’s no simple cure to self-doubt—that voice inside you that says “I will never be good enough.” That is why you should take care of your doubt—hold its hand in the rain and remind it that you are a human being and it’s okay for you not to be perfect. It’s okay for you to take longer than others. It’s okay for you to fail, it’s okay for you to learn and it’s okay for you to try again.”

“There’s a world you carry around inside your head that you keep secret from others: the world that houses your dreams. The world that holds the image of the person that you wish you could be. In the center of that world, there’s a storage shed with a door that won’t latch. That’s where your demons live, and you spend your life trying to find a way to keep that door closed, desperately trying to keep those pesky demons at bay so they don’t catapult your mind back into the real world. But the only way you’ll ever experience freedom is if you let the door fly open, because although your demons may try and destroy you, they dream of freedom just as often as you.”

“Sometimes suffering is just suffering. It doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t build character. It only hurts.”

“I hope I will always find it in my heart to easily let go of things like the trees during October.”

You don’t get thick skin without getting burnt.

Sirius-Crane.

“Make self-care a weekly task. Don’t save it for times when you’re already burned out. Schedule it. Prioritize it. And most important of all, look forward to it as you go through the daily grind of life. Doesn’t it make the work feel better when you know that tomorrow you’ll be watching a new episode of a TV series that you’re starting to love? Doesn’t it make the stress feel lighter when you know that a week from now you’re going to the movies with someone you love? A massage salon? Or just eating fast food at an empty parking lot with a friend? Life is about getting excited about things that make you feel good because when you don’t then it’ll get dull, boring and depressing. So keep planning things that will make you excited to get through this day. Prioritize self-care at least once a week, a couple of days a month. Your soul will thank you for it because it will be so healthy with the things it’s looking forward to that you will be less sad. That’s what excitement is about: getting less sad and having more space to breathe, love and live.”

“The strongest ones are the ones who have every reason to die but still live.”