Things change, and not always for the better.

I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.

Now you are no longer a giggling child, smiling at whoever comes along. You are a woman with power. Learn to control your smile, and you can control what men will think about you.

These will be my last moments of peace. . . . From now on, my love. . . will bring nothing but chaos.

Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water?

the one for whom the sun shines.. -Ramses II

But we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.