Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses. She could almost touch the destructive energy leaking out of her body. She allowed the feeling to emerge, regardless of whether it was good or bad; she was sick of self-control, of masks, of appropriate behavior. Veronika wanted to spend her remaining two or three days of life behaving as inappropriately as she could.

The important thing is to keep the fire in your heart and be strong to overcome hard moments.

So long as you do no harm to another, change your opinion once in a while. Contradict yourself without being embarrassed. This is your right. It doesn't matter what others think -because that's what they will think, in any case.

Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable.

behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.

Respect those who grew up and learned alongside you. Respect those who taught you.

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.