In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses.

Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.

When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.

People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.

Me, when I'm utterly exhausted by it all, when my skin breaks out, on those lonely evenings when I call my friends again and again and nobody's home, then I despise my own life - my birth, my upbringing, everything.

You know, Chihiro, darling- all it takes is one little wrong step and you end up feeling frustrated your whole life, like me.

It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.