“You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.”

“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living.”

“It isn’t for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.”

“Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It’s like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done… life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before. ”

“Him that I love, I wish to be free — even from me.”

“it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.”