now that she realized she had been waiting for him—she did not like that.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

The Warrior is terrified when making important decisions.

Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.

Meet your obligations. But obligations never prevented anyone from following their dreams. Remember that you are a manifestation of the absolute, and do only those things in your life that are worth the effort. Only those who do that will understand the great transformations that are yet to be seen.

God is love, generosity and forgiveness; if we believe in this, we will never allow our weaknesses to paralyse us.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.