If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding….

We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust..

The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on….

Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel..

Answerless questions can destroy you. Move on..

It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored..

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Bein….

There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one..

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals..

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love..

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen..

It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it. You feel it's something between you and ….

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking..

Even if you were green and had a beard and a male appendage between your legs. Even if your eyebrows were orange and you had a mole covering your ent….

She transforms once again into someone carefree, and I transform into someone whose only care is her..

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else..

There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive..

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving.

I will never have a photograph of her to carry around in my pocket. I will never have a letter in her handwriting, or a scrap-book of everything we'v….

I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you ar….

Every relationship has a hard part at the beginning. This is our hard part. It's not like a puzzle piece where there's an instant fit. With relations….