When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about how the world worked and about how safe I was.

How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.

You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

Your first kiss is destiny knocking.

You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.

I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe.

She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was.

Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.

We don't teach flowers to bloom

You hold an absence at your center, as if it were a life.

I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.

Conversation is the Best Content.

If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

I truly thank whoever's up there for giving me the opportunity to be loved.

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.

I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like a boy.

We need to be aware of the suffering, but retain our clarity, calmness and strength so we can help transform the situation.

Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It's like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.