“Our mothers are our first teachers, and we teach others the same lessons we learn from them. As a child, when your mother believes in you, you believe in yourself, and when that happens, there is nothing you can’t do. As a mother, that is the greatest gift we can give to a child.”

“Hey. Sometimes life is a shit flavored Popsicle.”

“I like ostriches. There’s a certain depth to their gaze,” he mused quietly.”

“#LateNightMusings: No one dies virgin, life screws us all.”

“I desired dragons with a profound desire.”

“What are you doing ?" She said and laughed. "I was curious," he whispered. "About what ?" "If happy tears taste the same as the sad ones," he said.”

“Work hard, and if you can't work hard, be smart; and, if you can't be smart, be loud.”

“There are some silences that are so huge, and fraught, and haunted, and weighed, and shocked, that they just are; there's nothing you can say about them that makes any sense. All you can do is witness them, and feel some deep ache that such things arrive, and must be endured, with wordless aching all around.”