Smile.

When I said goodbye, I thought you’d put up a fight. But you didn’t.

when someone asks you if you ever killed someone don’t you dare say no because the day you gave up on me, on us, the day I spent crying on the floor wondering why I wasn’t enough, is the day you killed me

The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.

I appreciate the woman with a healing heart. The woman with a broken past. The woman who has been lied to and cheated on. The woman who has been taken for granted. The woman whose love has been misunderstood. The woman who has been used and mislead. The woman who has placed her energy and warmth in the wrong hands. The woman who has gone through trials and troubles - I appreciate her because she still manages to stand on two feet. She still manages to breathe when the room around her shrinks. She still manages to smile and laugh on cloudy days. She still manages to love even though it’s been unrequited. she still manages, to live. That woman, I appreciate her.

Physics says: go to sleep. Of course you’re tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis to now. Quit tapping your feet. They’ll dance inside themselves without you. Go to sleep. Geology says: it will be all right. Slow inch by inch America is giving itself to the ocean. Go to sleep. Let darkness lap at your sides. Give darkness an inch. You aren’t alone. All of the continents used to be one body. You aren’t alone. Go to sleep. Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow, Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle, Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town and History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.

There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife’s right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. There is no act more wretched than stealing.