Give your daughters difficult names. Give your daughters names that command the full use of the tongue. My name makes you want to tell me the truth. My name doesn't allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right.

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.

Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.

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

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

Light attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy