Occupation: Author Birth: August 24, 1977
Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy?.
I feel like my life is so scattered right now. Like it's all the small pieces of paper and someone's turned on the fan. But, talking to you makes me ….
We all use the future to escape the present..
What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person..
You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened..
You matter as much as the things that matter to you do..
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting..
I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep... Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of th….
That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of..
Good friends are hard to find and impossible to forget..
I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience..
I'm not sure if I'm depressed. I mean, I'm not exactly sad. But I'm not exactly happy either. I can laugh and joke and smile during the day, But some….
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood..
So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane..
One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterd….
The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy..
Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth..
That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt..
We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken..
The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it will get easier does not mean that it doesn’t….
I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving..