Don't hate yourself for your mistakes. They are part of your story, and your story isn't finished yet. -Erin Forquer

Find the things, or people, that keep you afloat.. and hold onto them like a life raft when your life turns into a storm. -Erin Forquer

The world may be broken, and wildly unfair... But you can keep fighting to not let it break you, or tarnish the beauty that is yours, and yours alone. Erin Forquer

The easiest people to connect to, are the ones who don't pretend. Or hide. Or act like the world doesn't bother them. -Erin Forquer

Hope may be a fickle thing at times.. it can prolong our suffering and fool us into many things. And even though the truth may be that love isn't fair, or even kind sometimes, and perhaps fairness doesn't really exist, we all still need hope. We need to believe, to hold desperately onto the possibility that things can be better, because sometimes... they actually turn out that way. And that is worth the risk. -Erin Forquer

Find the places, and people, who celebrate you exactly as you are. And if you can't find them around you, then let me apologize for the world... we all too often don't recognize beauty when we desperately need it. -Erin Forquer

I only know my story, not yours. It's okay if you stay. But I will go where all of me is celebrated, wherever I am met in fields and celebrated. - Emily Maynard

One day you'll wake up... hard, face down on the concrete. Your body will ache, but it will be nothing compared to the pain that exists deep within your heart. And eventually, when the scabs form and the scars settle in, you'll realize the only thing gained from loving a certain person is the new knowledge you have of what you don't want. I hope you find whatever peace you can in that truth, because its all I have. -Erin Forquer

"Often, it's the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them."