Counting by 7s

The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence

For someone grieving, moving forward is the challenge. Because after extreme loss, you want to go back.

When you care about other people, it takes the spotlight off your own drama.

It's possible that all labels are curses. Unless they are on cleaning products.

A second can feel like forever if what follows is heartbreak.

And endings are always the beginnings of something else.

I don't want to know how you did it. I want to believe you are magic.

And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart

Every person has lots of ingredients to make them into what is always a one-of-a-kind creation.

She is like me. Silent. I admire that in a person. The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence. Introspection requires you to think and analyze. It's hard to do that when you are blabbing away.

[T]he deepest form of pain comes out as silence.

maybe that happens when you've been through a lot. all of your edges are worn off, like sea glass. either that, or you shatter.

All reality is a blender where hopes and dreams are mixed with fear and despair.

if your lost you might need to swim against the tide

From my observation, the older you get, the more you like the word cozy. That's why most of the elderly wear pants with elastic waistbands. If they wear pants at all. This may explain why grandparents are in love with buying grand kids pajamas and bathrobes.

I'm putting my place in the universe into perspective. I'm stardust. I'm golden brown. I'm just one small bit in a vast expanse.

It has been my experience that rewarding and heartbreaking often go hand in hand.

I'll be ready. I'm not sure for what exactly. But maybe that's what being ready really means.

She said that I was highly gifted. Are people lowly gifted? Or medium gifted? Or just gifted? It's possible that all labels are curses. Unless they're on cleaning products. In my opinion, it's not really a great idea to see people as just one thing.

Every person has lots of ingredients to make them what is always a one-in-a-kind creation. We are all imperfect genetic stews.

What we expect rarely occurs; what we don't expect is what happens.

I'm not brave; it's just that all other choices have been thrown out the window.

Only in cartoons and fairy tales and greeting cards do endings have glitter

The sky is filled with stars.

I think it's important to get pictures of things on your head. Even if they are wrong. And they pretty much always are.

A genius shoots at something no one else can see, and hits it.

I somehow make it through the first month. I dress and brush my teeth when they tell me to. And I experience the hollow feeling of complete loss, which is emptiness.

I force myself to think of anything but the one thing that I'm actually always thinking about. And that is so exhausting that I sleep more than I ever have.