"The next step will come but you don’t need to rush. Enjoy your life as it is. Not as what it will be."
"I didn’t ask permission to make this language mine. I stole it, like I used to steal apples and corn from my childhood gardens. I took large bites out of hard words, to make them mine. My grief and my anger turned Eastern Europe into a voodoo doll."
"Your past is just a story. And once you realize this, it has no power over you."
"I close my eyes and I let my body shut itself down and I let my mind wander. It wanders to a familiar place. A place I don’t talk about or acknowledge exists. A place where there is only me."
"I got lost in my own amusement park of a mind…. carousel anyone?"
