I swallowed a hand grenade that never stops exploding.

I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.

I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane

Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.

I've been ignored by prettier women than you, but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silence so far, without spilling a drop.

I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers will dig in you like quotation marks, blazing your limbs into parts of speech.

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.

I know it’s stupid to not own a gun yet have so many triggers, but in some other world gigantic seashells hold humans to their ears and listen to the echo of machines.

I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you.

I graduated first in my class from alibi school.

I want to whisper poetry into your mind and imprint love letters to your soul and dance with you in an empty white room of potential

People come and go.

I love playing strong feisty women, I really do, but if you were to ask my husband he'd probably say that I'm very insecure. And actually incredibly malleable, which isn't necessarily a good thing.

The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

As a child of God, you must realize that you are on the winning side of prophecy; until you win it is not over!

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.

What about your mind, does it shine?

My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that.

No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

Do not always ask when you pray, but instead affirm that God's blessings are being given, and spend most of your prayers giving thanks.

If you like cats and have some, you get kittens; and if you like kittens and enjoy having them about, they grow up and you get more cats.