My malady was submission.The symptom: my compliance.The antidote was loud clear boundaries.

The trees were friendly, they gave me rest and shadowed refuge. Slipping through them, I felt safe and competent. My whole body was occupied. I had little energy to think or worry.

Beneath hot sun, desert roses bloomed. Under cold moon, I still refused to.

Water was liquid silver, water was gold. It was clarity—a sacred thing. Drinking was no longer something to take for granted. I’d never needed to consider water before.

There was so little I wanted to carry. Packing my backpack took me all of four minutes

The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard.

I’d believed I needed to be steady in myself before I could function with others—but surviving alone no longer felt like a good way either.

I realized that the most empowering important thing was actually simply taking care of myself.

I was promising myself strength.I had to write it, say it, make the effort and fake it before I actually believed I could do it.

I was the director of my life, it was already true, and I would soon lead myself to my dreamed-of destinations.It was the task of my one thousand miles of solitude.

I no longer needed to peel myself of my skin, or to hide. To Dash the colorless ephemeral things that existed just beneath my surface were as vivid as the beauty marks he traced on my cheek.

Like Cupid, your promiseswere just misses.

If someone tells you that they’re called “blueberries” because they’re berries and they’re blue—believe them.

At least I rescued your poor hot dog.

Mother Teresa would seek no other pulpit than the hovels of the poor, and no other sermon than her works of love, performed for the unloved, in God's name.

Time is not a line but a series of now-points.

Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.

Cycling also offers a sense of independence, of being able to get up and go wherever and whenever you want. That's invaluable.

I have to wear clothes but I don't like to give an idea of what I am with clothes.

I don't let Mario appear in just any kind of game. Mario could not appear in Zelda games. They are two distinct game worlds.