In Romanian society, I am not particularly well-liked. I don't often receive invitations.

Women always need other women to lean on. They become friends in order to hate each other better. The more they hate each other, the more inseparable they become.

In Romanian society, I am not particularly well-liked. I don't often receive invitations.

Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?

In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.

Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand.

Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and to no avail. Some say that over time homesickness loses its specific content, that it starts to smolder and only then becomes all-consuming, because it’s no longer focused on a concrete home. I am one of the people who say that.