“To unravel any mystery, find the start. Untie that riddle, and the rest will follow.”

“With the soaring bliss of knowing she was in the arms of the one who adored her, she would risk absolutely everything for true love.”

“If you can’t find your way back to Happy, Navigate to the place you know as Less Sad.”

“When a person you love dies, the calendar becomes a minefield. Anyone who has lost someone knows this. There is the loved one’s birthday. One’s own Birthday. Various national and religious holidays, if one is religious. All of these days are difficult in their own ways. But the anniversary is different. On the anniversary of the loved one’s death, you slip backward through time to this same day, one, five, ten years ago. You live it all over again, minute by minute.”

“All night I flee from someone. I lead the chase, I lead the fugue. I sing a song of mourning. Black birds over black shrouds. My brain cries.”

“The more I dealt with adults, the less I wanted to be one.”

“Their curiosity is insatiable Their charisma is irresistible Butterflies have a way Of brightening our day”

“Why should women have to give up their name upon marriage, as if they are nothing but hood ornaments to their husbands! And why should a child be identified only by their father’s name and not the mother’s, who by the way, is the root of all creation - who is creation! We are never going to have a civilized society with equity as foundation, unless we acknowledge and abolish such filthy habits that we’ve been practicing as tradition. Showing off our skin-deep support for equality few days a year doesn’t eliminate all the discriminations from the world, we have to live each day as the walking proof of equality, ascension and assimilation.”