"You’ll
need coffee shops
and sunsets and road trips.
Airplanes and passports and
new songs and old songs,
but people more
than anything else.
You will need other people
and you will need to be that
other person to someone else,
a living breathing screaming
invitation to believe better things."
“ Don’t
google your name. Ever.
Don’t “search” for yourself on
anything that glows in the dark.
Don’t let your beauty be
something anyone can turn off.
Don’t edit your ugly out of your bio.
Let your light come from the fire.
Let your pain be the spark,
but not the timber.
Remember, you didn’t come
here to write your heart out.
You came to write it in.”
"Once upon a time there was a girl
who wanted to put her fist through a mirror.
She would tell everyone it was so that
she could see what was on the other side,
but really, it was so that she wouldn’t
have to look at herself.
That, and because she thought she might
be able to steal a piece of glass when
no one was looking, and use it to
carve her heart out of her chest."