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Even if it feels like your star has already faded beyond repair, remember that new stars derive themselves by picking up the debris of the old and pulling it together.

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On your worst days, when the world has been most cruel to you, when things have gone so wrong you can barely breathe without a thousand knives feeling like they are stabbing into you and you feel like you don’t…

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They remind us of how many people are wishing for something, are longing for answers, are praying for an outcome.

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You may be far from me, but we still share the same sky, the same dreams, the same wishes, the same love. You may be far from me, but we still look up and are grounded in who we are and who we’re meant to be—one day, together.

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You taught me forever. Light transcends time. And so do you.

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Let’s lie on our backs with our hands laced together and let the darkness swallow us. Let’s pretend that just for tonight we are the only two people on this earth.

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I am sorry that you thought you couldn’t be worth a universe. Because you are. Because everyone is. Everyone withholds an entire galaxy within his or her own soul. And so do you.

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The moon asks me if I will ever forget you, and I can’t help but confess that I’ve learned to forget everything in the past but I couldn’t forget the way you made me feel, I tell the moon that I learned how to forget everyone who hurt me but I still haven’t learned how to forget you.

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I want to know how you feel when a star is born inside you. Does it burn?

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I was trying to count millions of stars and losing track. Imagining the actual size of these tiny balls of fire that so many think are insignificant. Not to me.