Your only shame is to have shame.

Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached.

Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm number one in his life. I'm not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore.

I did not lose myself all at once.

We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.