ONE OF THE UNSETTLING THINGS about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn’t sure when or where it was going to end.

In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.

My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen.

Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.

We must strive to be like the moon

My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.

This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.

I am always quiet so that I know what to say when I must speak.

This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another.

I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t know.

...children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.

Our thinking makes our life

What you perceive as rejection is really someone making choices based on their needs at that time

Helping people getting a great start in life, a great foundation, is an investment.

One thing modeling taught me is that the spotlight can change everything.

Maybe that's what Hell is. You go mad. And all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up.

I cannot shut you out the way I shut the others out, so maybe I can destroy you. Must destroy you?

Commitment means losing yourself to gain something temporary. Nothing lasts. Not looks. Not love.

Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality.

Freedom, where are you? Who holds you back? [...] The mother of wit and pleasure, Oh freedom!

You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.