That Quote

One of my main regrets in life is giving considerable thought to inconsiderate people.

Please know whether it’s the days you burn more brilliant than the sun or the nights you collapse into my lap your body broken into a thousand questions, you are the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. I will love you when you are a still day. I will love you when you are a hurricane.

I looked at her and for a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was just some girl who had tied me to her leg to help her sink when she jumped off the bridge. Then I blinked and was in love with her again.

It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

Two of the most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.

I lie there and wait, and remind myself over and over that it doesn't last forever. That there will be another day and after that, yet another day. One of those days, I'll get up and eat breakfast and feel okay.

Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like "struggle." To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now - and to go on caring even through times that may bring us pain.

Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.”

“We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”

Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable.

I am not trapped in my body. I am trapped in other people's perceptions of my body.

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities that I have visited, all my ancestors.

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”

I have ruined relationships for fear of ruining those relationships.