“I want out of this place.With no reminders."It stings -sulphur tearsin cinnamon rain.”

“Instead,she's as stillas a leaf-littered pond,dark water evaporating,waiting desperately for rain.”

“One more year and I will be closer to wherever I'm going.”

“I'm justthe reason they married.Mum saysI was a surprise.Dad saysI was an accident.Truth is ...I am their mistake.”

“If I let him touch me,it'd be like openinga one-waytelepathic tunnel.”

“i miss my brother likethe sea would miss saltif that were taken away.”

“I walk the city, through its crush of people and its smells:body odour, rotting food, vomit and urine. A cocktail of oppression and freedom.”