“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”

“My soul hurts.”

“I tried on different versions of myself. I was so many different girls...”

“I’m going inside of myself and never coming out.”

“If you ever find yourself on a path that just doesn't feel safe anymore, you have every right to stop the car. Get out - change your shoes and start walking.”

“I bruise easily and sometimes I can’t stop bleeding.”

“We make people into Gods, desperate that they never leave us and hopeful that someday, if we ever deserve it, maybe they’ll love us back even half way.”

“I think it would shock most people if they really knew what we have each survived by the time we graduate high school.”

“Hope, in anything but myself, is just way too dangerous right now…”

“I write so I don’t call you.”

“Christ is sufficient. We do not need "support groups" for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy.”