I’m overwhelmed. My biggest downfall is my brightest blessing, I feel too much, all the time. Ya Allah, if it’ll keep my heart soft, break my heart every day.

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

I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing, I am unwelcome and my beauty is not beauty here. My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, my body is longing.

Make love like you have no secrets like you've never been left never been hurt like the world don't owe you a single wretched thing.

I won't glorify or romanticise heartbreak, for me it was a kind of death and I was forced to keep living.

Poetry is like a portrait of a moment or person, and the poem is almost like looking at a photograph; it slaps you in the face and kisses you at the same time. Nothing else does that, with that brevity. Songs try to do it, but that's three minutes. A poem, you read it and it kind of changes your life and you don't know how it happened and you can never forget it. It's like the best song lyric, the best line from a film-everything in the world that's short and great put together.

Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.