“There are some people I cannot get back and some places I can never return to, but they’re still out there. They are wishing me luck and love even though we haven’t seen each other in a long time, but they thought of me the other day when they heard a song that reminded them of that summer. And my heart is glowing.”

— from “heart of gold”

“Maybe the best way to romanticize your life isn’t to photograph it, to write about it constantly, maybe it’s by meeting yourself where you’re at and knowing that there’s beauty in the mundane.”

— from “bland girl summer”

“Love is woven into the tapestry of my life in gold thread. It is constant, it is overpowering, it is transformative. It is stitched through my childhood, connecting the branches of my family tree, shimmering like the North Star…It is late nights and long conversations and cross-country drives and texts in the morning and meals shared and movie marathons and spare keys and a couch to crash on and brunches and milkshakes and terms of endearment and not letting me isolate myself.”

— from “the loneliest love”

“There’s a hole in me the size of my hometown, and even though it will never be filled, I think it’s better that way. I think we need the holes in our heart to remind us where we’ve been, to remind us of all the people we’ve buried. We need to be haunted every now and then.”

— from “homesick”