There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters.

I tore up and ate my own passport in an airport hotel once. I'm bloated with language I can’t afford to forget.

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.

My favourite people, biggest inspirations and closest friends are all women. Not a coincidence.

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.

I tend to the wound so often, it never heals.