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 belong deeply to myself.

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

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.

It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.

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

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