Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like and what we should look like. Then we spend half of our life trying to be not like them, and then we reach another part of our lives where we see these things we can't get rid of.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the house and thought, soon I will no longer have to see these walls and all the unhappiness they keep inside.

Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

When you lose your face..., it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it.