I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
His cell phone—the adolescent’s pacemaker.
Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.
For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.
Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it.
The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.
We can see Spirit made visible when people are kind to one another, especially when it's a really busy person, like you, taking care of a needy, annoying, neurotic person, like you.
Life is not a submarine.
Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
Wish there’d been a shortcut, but the wound
This is how we make important changes-- barely, poorly, slowly.
My belief is that when you're telling the truth, you're close to God. If you say to God, I am exhausted and depressed beyond words, and I don't like You at all right now, and I recoil from most people...
I kept my expectations low, which is one of the secrets of life.
I danced alone for a couple of years, and came to believe that I might not ever have a passionate romantic relationship—might end up alone! I’d always been terrified of this. But I’d rather not ever b...
How alive am I willing to be?
Ultimately we’re all just walking each other home.
Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people.
In the face of everything, we slowly come through.