I always pushed myself. Whenever I felt I needed to stop, I made myself run faster.

My box bedroom can only fit a bed and a wardrobe but it was my whole world. My only personal space to think and dream, to cry and laugh and wait until I became old enough to do all the things I wasn't allowed to do.

...all people needed was time and then they could figure most things out of themselves.

The important thing is not what we look like, but the role we play in our best friend’s life. Friends choose certain friends because that’s the kind of company they are looking for at that specific time, not because they’re the correct height, age, or have the right hair color

people who say its a long story, mean it's a stupid short one that they are too embarrassed and couldn't be bothered to tell

Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted