What gods do you believe in? I’ll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them. - Andrea Gibson

Lately I've been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and how I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be. And when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breath, it essentially comes out like this: before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.

Something difficult to stomach in this life is the fact that we might all learn and grow at a pace that will hurt people

Even on my worst days, my scars are the backroads where kids sneak out their windows and drive through the night to hear poetry.