You can't make homes out of human beings.

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

Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.

I’m not sad, but the boys who are looking for sad girls always find me. I’m not a girl anymore and I’m not sad anymore. You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn't he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.

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

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

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.