Hardships can harden even the best person.

I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations.

Hope is the adrenalin of the soul.

I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.

Too many good things all seem the same after a while.

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.