

“Spiritual but not religious,” Zachary clarifies. He doesn’t say what he is thinking, which is that his church is held-breath story listening and late-night-concert ear-ringing rapture and perfect-boss fight-button pressing. That his religion is buried in the silence of freshly fallen snow, in a carefully crafted cocktail, in between the pages of a book somewhere after the beginning but before the ending.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea

“People think that good and bad are opposites but they're wrong, they're just mirror images of one another in broken glass.”
― Sometimes I Lie
― Sometimes I Lie

“Some people appear happy on the outside and you only know they’re broken inside if you listen as well as look.”
― Sometimes I Lie
― Sometimes I Lie

“It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.”
― Every Day
― Every Day
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