I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope.

I'm not happy with just repeating myself.

The ways in which we are able to express courage also depend on the hand life deals us.

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.