— wild embers.

• «How comforting to think that there are so many universes. And perhaps even one I do not grieve, because you are alive and I have no need mourn.» p. 3
• «Growth is simply learning how to suffer, gracefully, elegantly, constantly moving and travelling without letting your pain tear you apart. Growth itself is agonising.» pp. 6-7
• «Every sleepless night I am interrogated by the darkness that lives inside of me.» p. 14
• «There are a million new versions of you, hiding under your skin. How each one is born from suffering agonisingly.» p. 16
• «It buries holes in your hear, it makes you feel hopeless, you are so close to falling apart. This terrible thing, this broken thing, tells you you belong to it, this miserable thing, this despicable thing, tells you that you can't survive without it.» p. 32
• «All broken things heal. Yes, even the ones that look like they are beyond repair.» p. 50
• «Look for people who want to help you fly even if it means you fly away from them, even if it means you never see them again.» p. 51
• «Because if we do not choose ourselves, if we simply stare at our pain and allow it to overcome us then we lose ourselves forever.» p. 70
• «The only person you must compare yourself with is yourself.» p. 81
• «People don't look at art because it's perfect. People look at art because it's extraordinary, strange, different, captivating, odd, unusual, they look at it because it stands out. You can strive to be perfect. Or you can strive to be art.» p. 88
• «So instead, you hide it. You hold in the storms you slowly let the fire die. All because you think how no one could handle your truth, your courage, your pain.» p. 111
• «People talk of love like it is patient and it is kind. Love is also dark. It is ferocious and angry and destructive.» p. 120
• «For every part of you that came together was stitched together with heartache.» p. 123
• «Just because we are soft doesn't mean there aren't flames within us that rise a thousand miles above.» p. 142
• «Growth is a thing of beauty and of pain, without heartache there are no lessons to gain.» p. 145