“I regret it so much that I didn’t appreciate at the time what she was trying to do for us.”

I’m an award-winning writer and editor living in New York City, where I currently work at BuzzFeed as the Senior Lifestyle Editor.

"She truly has been the biggest blessing in my life. I still remember the time in my childhood when, every night, she would tell me to go through my day, then say something beautiful that would calm me and help me forget all my worries. I miss those days. I’ll leave you guys with another one: 'Prosperity favors those who have courage in the right situations.' Translation isn’t perfect, but it means having the courage to make the right decision brings good things/lessons to learn, so always be courageous and believe in yourself."

"And so they wouldn’t be covered in Otter Pop juice or whatever else we were cutting open."

"For us, it’s the break, but equally trying to save tomorrow from being the emotional hellscape that is my underslept son."

"As someone who works for the railway, don’t fuck with trains.

"Never let them take you to a second location. That's when the bad stuff happens. Poke eyes, knee groins, scream, bite. Whatever you have to do to get away."

"The truth is, the internet has always been that way. One of my least favorite things about the earlier Internet was how openly pedophiles existed in tons of spaces.

Anywhere comments or chats could be made, there was always someone like that. They still exist clearly, but the early days were their own kind of awful."

"Those early MSN and AOL chat rooms were wild. I was around 11 or 12 and chatted to a cool 12-year-old girl from somewhere in the States. There's a good chance she was, in fact, not a 12-year-old girl."