i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay

My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.

All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.

I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.

Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?

People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, or physical torture. But I say emotional abuse—anxiety, fear, guilt, and degradation—is far worse and much harder to survive.

Model communes are the ones where the leaders lie the best and the biggest.