I wanted him to look at me like maybe I was magic.

The trees were friendly, they gave me rest and shadowed refuge. Slipping through them, I felt safe and competent. My whole body was occupied. I had little energy to think or worry.

Beneath hot sun, desert roses bloomed. Under cold moon, I still refused to.

Water was liquid silver, water was gold. It was clarity—a sacred thing. Drinking was no longer something to take for granted. I’d never needed to consider water before.

There was so little I wanted to carry. Packing my backpack took me all of four minutes

The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard.

I’d believed I needed to be steady in myself before I could function with others—but surviving alone no longer felt like a good way either.

I realized that the most empowering important thing was actually simply taking care of myself.

I was promising myself strength.I had to write it, say it, make the effort and fake it before I actually believed I could do it.

I was the director of my life, it was already true, and I would soon lead myself to my dreamed-of destinations.It was the task of my one thousand miles of solitude.

I no longer needed to peel myself of my skin, or to hide. To Dash the colorless ephemeral things that existed just beneath my surface were as vivid as the beauty marks he traced on my cheek.

Hallucinations aren’t always out of the ordinary. How do we know we’re not hallucinating if everything seems plausible?

If God does indeed exist, then He is good, and He is just, and He stands upon the side of right.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

In pain is a new time born.

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

Stop labeling people just because they're not like you.

Love yourself just as you are.

It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up that he's going to win.

You’re always a kid around your parents… Unless they’re acting like children. Then you don’t get the chance.

Let him smell his way to Dover!