Your mouth is a lonely place but I keep coming back.

Light attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy

Later that night, I held an atlas on my lap, ran my fingers across the whole world, and whispered, ‘where does it hurt?’ It answered, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.

Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you're wearing, who you're around, what you're doing. Recreate and repeat.

My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.

It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.

Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.

I’m overwhelmed. My biggest downfall is my brightest blessing, I feel too much, all the time. Ya Allah, if it’ll keep my heart soft, break my heart every day.

Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity. Tell people how you feel.

Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they come with keys, and sometimes the men, they come with hammers.

You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.

I love you, ’ he whispered, and kissed my brow. ‘Thorns and all.

You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.

Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.

My dream is to empower myself with education, and then it is a weapon.

The climate change plan set out a few days ago by federal NDP leader Tom Mulcair will get us there, which is why I strongly support it.

To allow God to be God we must follow Him for who He is and what He intends, and not for what we want and what we prefer.

I was at the foot of my class.

Forgiveness does not absolve you from consequences.

Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.