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“It can be hard to find the grace in letting go when you want to hold on to something so hard that your hands bleed. “

“Some of the worst moments of my life were also some of the best teachers I’ve ever had.

So I don’t think it has to be as cut-and-dry as regretting them or not. We don’t have to give ourselves a false ultimatum between resentment and gratitude. “

“Maybe it’s because we see – or want to see – part of ourselves in the characters we become obsessed with. We fight their battles alongside them. We learn to overcome challenges and defeat monsters and go on amazing adventures.”

“Remember the person who believed in soulmates and fairy tales and true love. I’m sure that they’re still inside of you somewhere.”

“You deserve to be chosen every day, not just on the days when you’re at your best. The most wonderful people will love you even harder on your worst days because they’ll understand that that’s when you need it the most.”

“It’s easy to feel like nobody else is really out there, that we’re all running in parallel lines and may never cross paths again. If I know one thing, it’s that we will.”

“How could we possibly matter when we’re so tiny compared to the rest of this universe, and only living in it for such a brief time? Maybe I don’t know what the point is - but I do believe that there is one.”

Thank you to the musicians who are the soundtrack to both my bedroom lip-sync dance parties and the moments when I fall apart remembering everything and everyone I’ve lost.

“Change is hard. Acknowledging how much hurt there is in the world is hard. Acknowledging that we have all had a role in contributing to this hurt is even harder. But there is no way to make things better without accepting that we have contributed to causing this pain.”

“Do you still think about me when the streetlights come on?”

“The things that make us feel out of control can drive us into a sense of hopelessness, and it’s easy to get stuck there.”

“I miss those late-night, semi-philosophical conversations where the real thing we were trying to discover was that we weren’t alone in feeling alone.”

“Maybe someday we’ll run a test and find out with 95% certainty that what we think is the human soul is just a chemical reaction happening right in the centre of our brains. If we do, I don’t want to know.”

“It is often simpler to ignore our own role in relationships than to admit that we are often the ones who break our own hearts. But as much as we may try to deny it, we break our own hearts every day.”

“I know that these times can make life feel impossible and frustrating and just so disheartening. But I hope that during these moments, you’re able to find space to remember all of the things that make it feel like there’s a point to the madness.”

“Let yourself crumble, let yourself cry and scream and fight and do whatever it is you need to do to feel something again. It’s okay if you need to stop searching for the light for a little while. Because the light will always find its way back to you.”

“There are many more things that I have learned from taking stock of what I’m grateful for in a day – I want my life to allow me to explore and create, to share my art with other people, to have more moments of laughter and dancing around in my bedroom singing love songs into a hair brush.“

“Our society seems to revolve around an obsession with uniqueness. We think that people who are extremely successful, whether they’re musicians or poets or business moguls, have some special ‘it’ factor that the rest of us just don’t possess.”

“Despite going down so many different paths, I still haven’t found one that leads me to where I want to be.”