“I am immeasurably, unbearably happy. I am three years old. I am sixty. I am six. I am there.”

“I have heard no word of my own language; I am rendered dumb.”

“I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up.”

“I am who I am, I don't follow my friends. I am who I am, I don't follow the trends.I am who I am, I don't try to pretend.I am who I am, til the very end.”

“Every day I am someone else. I am myself-I know I am myself-but I am also someone else.It has always been like this.”

“I am aware that I am aware”

“and suddenly I am washed over by a wave of happiness for it, for my little story, because it is a place, a home even, and I can go back to it from wherever I am”