A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations.

Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child.

Your only shame is to have shame.

You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.