Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.

I am no longer afraid to say anything.

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.