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You have to come to terms with the fact that you let them leave with so many pieces of you. You have to forgive yourself for loving yourself thin, for forgetting about the things you wanted to do because you were so busy trying to save someone who didn’t want to be saved.

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Obviously living in that negative sort of mind set isn’t really living, but how do I change it? How do I grow past just being a survivor of tragedy and pain? How do I live a life that fills my emotional bank account instead of constantly emptying it?

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There is something about her characters that makes an everyday girl with everyday issues feel better.

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It’s time to put away childhood things, like the notion that traveling will inherently heal my soul. It’s time to face myself and fix myself, and stop assuming my camera roll of the world will do it for me.

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Here are some of my favorite quotes from the film that may hopefully provide solace for you as well. (And yes, Richard from Texas doles out the gems.)

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Here are 9 things to try – alone.

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What happens to a broad abroad stays abroad.

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You whispered to my heart from Indonesia and assured me that pleasure and pain and prayer were united and meet somewhere in the middle of my chest

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My time kicking through the slush pile has taught me this: people are crazy and people are determined. I cannot imagine the amount of dedication and beautiful delusion it takes to write five hundred pages about a woman who must choose between a jazz musician and an eccentric LES artist.

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You’re beautiful because you take risks. You substituted “who cares” for “what if” and stopped talking into your beer about how you were going to do it and actually did it.