on a bike ride through the Surrey Lanes, pedalling in my cotton dress through the hot fields blushing with poppies, freewheeling down a sudden dip into a cool wooded sanctum.

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.

Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.

Exposing corruption, brandishing truth.

I want to be a journalist again. I want to make a difference in the world.

There are countries of the world, and regions of one's own mind, where it is unwise to travel.

Let them say whatever gives them comfort.

...disaster, when it is quite sure of its own strength, will announce itself by hardly moving its lips...

I tell you the truth, so many people failed to do what they could have done because of the bitter things that happened in the past.

Bruises and dried blood covered her face, giving the illusion of chicken pox.

Make this moment the moment of truth about yourself. You have been selling short all of your life.

It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

We have found that bats adjust the timing of their sounds when they encounter clutter, and they seem to 'strobe' the world with sound.

There is no conflict between favouring Islamic and traditional values and being more open and international.

I'm ready for some rock 'n' roll action.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Something GOOD is going to happen to you today.