Far from the Tree

You can’t just push family away. You’re always going to be connected to them

You don’t have to tell anyone. But it’d just be a shame if you had all these people willing to support you, and you never let them.

Where were you?

I needed you.

I need you.

I’m scared of how much I need you.

being next to someone that perfect made Maya just want to be messier, dirtier, louder.

Pretending to work is way more exhausting than actually working

There’s no foundation for the house. And you need a foundation if you want to build anything that lasts

That’s what happens when you love someone: they’re brave when you can’t be! I can be brave—for you, for both of us

Pity wasn’t strength

home was a person and not a place