I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

A cliché is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.

A person didn’t need to be beautiful, they just needed to be loved. But I couldn’t help wanting it. If that was the way I could be loved, to be beautiful, I’d take it

You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal.

I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.

We have no home, she told me. I am your home.

A couple of times, I could have turned a trick. But I didn't want to start. I knew how it would play. When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.