These tools were my parents’ way of saying: What you’re doing is important. We support it. We want to help you find your way.

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.

The saying goes that for a wound caused by dog bite to heal you have to eat that same dog, and I did scoop up a mouthful for myself

Men... No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

It's never too late to achieve your dreams

Be the star of your life.

True love goes deeper than physical attraction. Only one's inner positive beauty is capable of creating a level of love that is irreplaceable.

I like action-adventure movies.

Just because the years are passing doesn't mean that the quality of our lives must automatically go downhill.

An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.