“...what happens when you returnand find nothingbut a hollowed shell,shingles and floor,walls and echoesand the light that lead you herehas now burned outand the ones who built ithave traveled afarand you cant go to them,no matter what shoes you wear.”

“No matter what, we have to keep moving forward, even if we have to crawl.”

“I love how summer just wraps it’s arms around you like a warm blanket.”

“Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.”

“Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.”

“Love is the castle, doubt is the moat, desire is the paddle and hope is the boat.”

“What a more beautiful world this would be if we didn't wait til people were dead before we honored their spirit.”

“Hold love like a butterfly, with gentle preservation. Hold life like the reigns of a wild stallion, with fierce assertion. Encompass that, and you find the nectar of the immortal spirit.”

“This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt from American Honey)”

“Sometimes you have to put yourself in other people’s shoes to really understand the hardships of their souls.”

“I firmly disbelieve in death. A spirit never dies. Where it wanders when it leaves the flesh, is a cognitive proposition.”