"if you want to fly, you must give up everything that weighs you down."

"lift with your knees, atlas, the heavens are a burden, but in the starlit ink of constellations you have written: endure." "like the way the sun is right now, with the long shadows and that kind of bright, soft light you get when the sun isn't quite setting? that's the light that makes everything better, everything prettier, and today, everything just seemed to be in that light." "i don't dare desire to live a black and white life that produces security and money. i yearn for an inventive and colorful world which produces imagination, experience, and character." "though i have no one to blame but myself for my shortcomings, i can't help but feel conflicted about having any emotion whatsoever. can i truly be me?" "i lie in bed on my side every single night. i can feel the pressure, the pulling and closing and darkening presence of them… but the tears won’t fall. they stay behind my open eyelids and refuse to drop to the earth, proving that i might be more of a coward than if i were to just be crying my eyes out. not even the sad music can urge the tears to trickle down my cheeks, it’s killing me inside and i don’t know how to let go." "stop thinking about everything so much, you’re breaking your own heart." "i want to make you the happiest person alive. because you deserve to be happy. and seeing you happy is what makes me the happiest." "some days are simply better than others. there is no day that is completely terrible."