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

"In the old days, when travelers would get lost, they would follow the stars and I love that idea. I wish that I could rely on something as simple and magnificent as a star for all of my aching questions."

"He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning."

"He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he'd lost a thousand years ago."

"Even if we try to conform to ideals and strive for perfection, we will always be pulled back to our core identity because it's the path of least resistance for our souls " an energy force that wants nothing more than for us to honor and accept who we are and discover what we're meant to do in the world."

"Starting over can be the scariest thing in the entire world, whether it's leaving a lover, a school, a team, a friend or anything else that feels like a core part of our identity but when your gut is telling you that something here isn't right or feels unsafe, I really want you to listen and trust in that voice."

"If ever I was running, it was towards you."

"Love is my drug of choice, even if it comes laced with pain and disaster."

"I write so I don't call you."

"I've always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl - this hunger to love other people into their highest selves and it's what has made me irreversibly and just so forever in love with you."

"Your passions don't have to connect to one another and no one needs to sign off on them. Passion isn't logical it's only the fuel which keeps our souls alive. Let it be that simple."

"I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of who I was when I was little, before the world got its hands on me."

"Sometimes you have to let go a little bit and travel the path of least resistance but this doesn't mean that you quit when things get tough, as you are working towards a goal! It just means that you may only be able to see a rough draft of your final destination, right now, and that it's safe to explore along the way."

"For so many years, I couldn't understand why every time I thought that someone finally loved me, like for real, they would eventually turn to vapor. Every person whom I've ever loved is trapped inside of my chest. I've breathed all of them in so deeply that I've nearly choked and died on every soul that I've ever given myself to."

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

"How you spend your time when you are not working or studying says everything about who you are and what is motivating your life."

"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 can feel my life changing and I'm not ready."

"I could watch him do this until morning - never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly - his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I realize the inconvenient, inappropriate truth: 'I love this man and it has swallowed me."

"I ruin everything. I think that a bullet must have passed through my heart when I was very young, causing me to bleed out slowly, over things and people and every white surface that I'd ever come across."

"Something about him feels like forever."

"It feels like the world is folding up around me, like origami paper, and I'm trapped inside of its breathless center."

"Please Whoever you are, whatever you are I believe in you even though I don't completely understand you. I feel you around me even though I can't exactly describe what I'm feeling. Sometimes things happen to me and I know that you're there and I'm humbled by the lack of coincidence that exists in the world. Whatever you want from me, it's yours - just please help me. You know how I get when I lose control, and I find myself constantly being pulled back there these days."

"Hope, in anything but myself, is just way too dangerous right now."

"I need to make sense of it - to understand how I could care this much and why I can't let go."

"Recognize that you have been chosen to be alive, right now, at this exact moment in time and know that none of that is random. There is something about you, your past or your future that is required at this exact moment in history. We need to know who you are and what you have been through."

"My soul hurts."

"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."

"Something, somewhere, knows what's best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experiences to light my way as long as I live in gratitude and keep paying attention to the signs."

"I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton my heart . just in case anyone up there is listening."

"The only way that you can identify and then fulfill your life's purpose is for you to love yourself, charge up your life and serve the world."

"Organizing your emotions reclaims your power over any given drama. Nothing is stronger than your own mind."

"Being a Dream Girl is never going to be about what you look like or how much you weigh. After all, our physical appearances are just reflections of our inner worlds. What makes you a Dream Girl is your emotional sensitivity, your self-awareness, and your ability to communicate who you are effectively and compassionately in the world."

"We live in a world where there is such a clear definition of what a girl should be that it takes almost no effort at all to completely hate ourselves."

"Sometimes you're left with only 1 choice: Take what's yours and run for you life."

"Standing naked on the beach with all of my secrets between my legs, I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself."