In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.

Real love finds you once, if you're lucky.

Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?

But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever." Maybe because forever is such a scary place.

God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.

Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.

in a woman's womb.another chance.to make the world better.

I had never kissed a boy, had never even considered that I might enjoy such an unclean thing, until literature opened my eyes.

Hurt. Enough to want to make someone else hurt too.

I felt angry, frustrated.I felt I didn't belong, not in my, church, not in my home, not in my skin.

Honesty. Sobriety. My virginity. No way to regain the first two, I almost gave away the last.

Take charge of your life and multiply it. Be in control of your life and your time!

The purported insight achieved by the patient is not the product of a process of veridical self-discovery, but rather reflects the patient’s conversion to the therapist’s interpretation.

It's better to decide wrongly than weakly. If you're weak, you're likely to be wrong anyway.

If you aren't living your dreams then you're living your fears.

I think, when you are the prostitute... you don't want to be coming.

White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.

You don't encounter anyone who is not hero or villain of their own story. If it's man vs. self, you have to explore the ways each character is villainous and heroic.

That kind of love - the kind you realize you already have by the life you've created together - that's the kind that lasts.

You are all so lucky to be living here. If I live in Manila I would definitely live in Azure.

The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.