My reflection in the mirror shows me pink and puffy. I thought pregnant women were to supposed to glow. I am not glowing.

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

The pain has left but I know that it has not gone far, that it is sulking somewhere in a corner or under the bed and it will jump out when I least expect it.

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.

It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.

we both smile and we are conspirators.

Successful people go through fear to get to where they are.

In a half-empty-glass sort of world, I’m the little girl whose cup runneth over.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.

Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.

I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.

A lot of stuff I do, 10 years later it becomes popular.

At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years.

The Bible diagnoses the cancer of all cancers and prescribes the cure of all cures.

Dream big, dare greatly and shine brightly.