but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody's one and only.

leave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with tears, my eyes burning and my head throbbing

Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.