“You were always only ever meant to be just you, not what you think they wanted to have made of you.”

They ask me what it is to be a woman, as if I have to explain what it is to be a human.

I’ve seen far too many people lose their chance, waiting for others to catch up.

Never allow for temporary thoughts take over the permanence of your heart.

Alas, we found ourselves living in a broken world with sad souls but happy masks.

Those who try to break you, come shattered themselves.

She deserved her skies of rainbows, after the many storms her mind endured.

And suddenly days slowed down when I didn’t have you by me.

I’m simply a wildflower unaware of where I’ve come from, but allow me some sun and rain and see me bloom.

My love, we walk amongst a crowd of lonely hearts.

From the dark depths of my soul came an intense passion for prose.

Don’t worry about me for a queen not needs a king to rule.

I drown amongst those pretending to save me.

Fireworks feel different when the fire lives within.

Love wild, Love free, Because at the end of the day my darling, It’s just you and me.

You don’t need to be strong all the time, for only a fool will move against the currents rather than flow against it.

Perhaps the storm is what we needed to understand the calm.

Always think, ‘what’s the worst that can happen’ and have some kind of strategy to deal with it.

Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don’t think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.

I think justice is important because there are many injustices in the world and I hate injustice.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you’ll do things differently.

If you’re in the luckiest one percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.

Just promise you’ll think of me, every time you look up in the sky and see a star.

Every man today is the result of his thoughts yesterday.