Is all that we see or seem...

“You don’t need to explain yourself to other people, and you don’t need an excuse for being yourself.”

“It’s not just other people we need to forgive. Sometimes we need to forgive ourselves.”

“I like how our hands seem to have their own conversations, apart from our mouths. I like how we tell things we can’t seem to say out loud. In these spaces between, our fingers meet and they fit. Perfectly. There were no walls. No secrets. I like how our hands knew how to be together at times we can’t seem to.”

“Don’t mistake silence for weakness. Smart people don’t plan big moves out loud.”

“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”

“Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind.”

“By seeking and blundering we learn.”

“Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.”