The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures.
When you're struggling to survive, no one gets to label you a coward, not even you yourself in your private thoughts.
A god who cares more about a little water on the head than my daughter's character is not a deity I want her to spend eternity with.
Some men can only admire independent women at a distance.