feelings i identify with

That is what these characters consistently struggle with: they don’t want to make themselves legible, or they desperately want to but can’t.

I am blessed in the insistency.

You are someone who needs faith more than you need bulletproof, long-term plans.

And my birthday gift to myself is the certainty that I have what it takes to start over if I need to.

Those who wonder are incomplete.

to let every day’s path be a mystery instead of a narrow winding road.

I want to write every day and read books and to be in love and live near all my friends and work on what I know to be true and good. For me, that’s salvation—that’s ambition.