Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was only justifiable when confronted by a real threat: ferocious animals, armed attackers, earthquakes, but not a group of people gathered together in a refectory. But human beings are like that,' she thought. 'We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.

But now I knew that true love was above all that and that it would be better to die than to fail to love.

When someone wants something then they should be aware that they are taking a risk. But this is precisely what makes life interesting.

If you never take a risk, you will never know what changes you need to make.

We must study things we will never use, but which someone told us were important to know.

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.