#this quote!

It’s hard to explain how we know our own gender. It’s often just a sense of who we are, filtered through culture and the words we have available to us.

all nature is rhythmical—birth, life, death; the pulse of blood, the tides; the planets and even the comets in their orbits; day and night; the seasons—and nothing that we know progresses steadily in a straight line.

You've grown stronger here than I ever could've imagined. The only way to know how strong, is to keep testing your limits.

There are those who say fate is something beyond our command. That destiny is not our own, but I know better. Our fate lives within us, you only have to be brave enough to see it.

I reckon swimming the Thames is like being a politician, you start off at Oxford and if you swallow enough shit you end up at Westminster.