“I think too much. I think ahead. I think behind. I think sideways. I think it all. If it exists, I’ve fucking thought of it.”

“You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.”

“I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.”

“I want to deactivate myself. I want the world to leave me alone. I want to hide and remain untouched, unaffected, unreachable. I want to disappear from people’s eyes and minds so they can’t even think me.”

“Nothing goes away. Not on its own. You deal with it, or it deals with you.”

“I plant roots so deeply in the people I love that I always lose a piece of myself when they go.”

“What a terrible feeling to love someone and not be able to help them.”