“ I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful. Chuck Palahniuk
“ My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days… Gillian Flynn
“ Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice. Alain de Botton
“ How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action? Arthur Schopenhauer
“ How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. Alice Walker