There is a whole other world with an entirely different version of me, a me that is not pretty, a me that no boys want, a me she would never talk to.

They said the doctors could tell from the scars.""Stop.""Scars can tell you how old the wound is.""Stop.""When I stopped going to school, they came and found me. They found me in the closet.""Sarah.

Your boyfriend smells bad, says Sarah as she sniffs the armpit of the giant sweatshirt.All boys smell bad I say and she nods her head like we have just figured out something very important.

In the pages of a book, we are in paradise.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards.

What you believe has a much greater impact on your life than what anybody else believes.

The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.

New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.

Artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

You use metaphor to make yourself feel at home in the world. You use metaphor to extinguish the unknown. The problem is the unknown is where I want to be.

Playing the villain gets you higher ratings on reality TV and saying outrageous stuff on Twitter gets you more followers.