The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

The great problem with poisoning by Bitterness was that the passions - hatred, love, despair, enthusiasm, curiosity - also ceased to manifest themselves. After a while, the embittered person felt no desire at all. They lacked the will either to live or to die, that was the problem.

Being equally convinced that aggression and rudeness are synonymous with having a "powerful personality."

We must struggle for our dreams, but when certain paths prove impossible, it would be best to save our energies in order to travel other roads.

If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.

No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.

Veronika had noticed that a lot of people she knew would talk about the horros in other people's lives as if they were genuinely concerned to help them, but the truth was that they took pleasure in the suffering of others, because that made them believe they were happy and that life had been generous with them