My name is indigenous to my country, it is not easy to pronounce, it takes effort to say correctly and I am absolutely in love with the sound of it and its meaning. Also, it's not the kind of name you baby, slip into sweet talk mid sentence, late night phone conversation, whisper into the receiver kind of name, so, of that I am glad.

Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a machete in the neck.

You can't make homes out of human beings.

We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there.

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.

At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.

I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.