This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone.

They only can shoot a body but they cannot shoot my dreams.

Instead of sending guns, send books. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers.

I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.

We must believe in the power and strength of our words. Our words can change the world.

Then they told me about the call from home and that they were taking the threats seriously. I don't know why, but hearing I was being targeted did not worry me. It seemed to me that everyone knows they will die one day. My feeling was nobody can stop death; it doesn't matter if it comes from a Talib or cancer. So I should do whatever I want to do.

Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.