Living never wore one so much as the effort not to live. - Anaïs Nin

"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."

"Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are."

"She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself."

"I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness."

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."