shit sucks, man.

“Trauma sends you letters, without warning, for the rest of your life, usually disguised as something else.”

“How you do it, girl? How you wake up with a smile on as big as the sun when you were up crying all night before?”

“I suffer from unrequited self love. I love myself, but I don’t love myself back.”

“Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming.”

“I hope our daughters are born with so much fire in their souls, they could put volcanoes and stars to shame.”

“When you cry you are saying I love you to yourself bur there is history. There is time.”

“Like most sensitive souls, you already know you’re sensitive. You soak up others’ moods and desires like a sponge. You absorb sensation the way a paintbrush grasps each color it touches on a palette.”

“Our fathers’ fists: one-liners we still know by heart.”

“I hope I haven’t already driven past my greatest moments.”

“You are not a reflection of the people who can’t love you.”

“We know the Pythagorean theorem by heart, but short-circuit when anyone asks us, ‘How are you?’ We don’t know. We don’t know. That wasn’t on the study guide.”

“There will always be a person who looks like a poem the earth wrote to keep you alive.”

“I hope you know you’re capable, and brave, and significant, even when it feels like you’re not.”

“I know, I do, that I feel this way now and will not feel this way soon. I know that the aphorisms, even if I hate them, are right. This too shall pass.”

“And now I write about beautiful things like I will never touch a beautiful thing again”

“Find your identity in more than just your suffering”

“Writing a list of ways I could be better and writing a suicide note are the same thing.”