Before you step out into the world today, remember that you will encounter people whose struggles you do not know. Remember the way a pair of eyes light up when greeted with kindness.

— D. Antoinette Foy

Don't be afraid to be afraid. Have fear, and then conquer the shit out of it.

— D. Antoinette Foy

I am in awe of flowers. Not because of their colors, but because even though they have dirt in their roots, they still grow. They still bloom.

— D. Antoinette Foy

I want to celebrate the sadness that makes you feel everything so deeply. I want to throw a party for the wounds that make you so unabashedly human.

— D. Antoinette Foy

I wear the universe backwards. I imagine putting stars in my coffee, and sugar in the sky. Furthermore, I imagine going fishing in clouds, and watching the sun hide behind lakes. Furthermore, I'm too busy dancing with my imagination to even tip toe with reality for a second. They say I'm going mad. They're right.

— D. Antoinette Foy

Life is so beautiful and so short that anything that makes me feel less than too much is nothing at all.

— D. Antoinette Foy

Love is wind for the soul

— D. Antoinette Foy

My heart's scripture tastes foreign in the mouths of cowards and on the tongues of those who have never breathed in the moon and breathed out the world.

— D. Antoinette Foy

Take each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet.

— D. Antoinette Foy

There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry.

— D. Antoinette Foy