Life has been very hard on me, but, at the same time, it has taught me a great deal.

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.

Your eyes show the strength of your soul.

The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.

One of Love's qualities--namely, Forgiveness.

We hereby declare the end to the wall dividing the sacred from the profane: from now on, all is sacred.

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.