Sometimes we have so much to say, we cannot say it. Sometimes it's best we do not say goodbyes.

Kisses open doors, I've noticed. That one gesture can unlock secrets, ease open feelings. It can't be prevented--these kisses just are. It's how they work. They break into basements you never knew you had.

Sometimes we have so much to say, we cannot say it. Sometimes it's best we do not say goodbyes.

Perfection is a moving target

But maybe the best thing I learnt was this: that we cannot know a person's soul and nature until we've sat beside them, and talked.

Marjan. I have told him tales of good women and bad women, strong women and weak women, shy women and bold women, clever women and stupid women, honest women and women who betray. I'm hoping that, by living inside their skins while he hears their stories, he'll understand over time that women are not all this way or that way. I'm hoping he'll look at women as he does at men-that you must judge each of us on her own merits, and not condemn us or exalt us only because we belong to a particular sex.

I believe the world is as we choose to view it. Simple as that. Our happiness is, in the end, up to us, and to no one else.