"but in my own room I'm happier, I think."

"you are going to break your promise. I understand. and I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you."

"I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me."

"watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness."

"what part of yourself did you have to destroy in order to survive in the world this year? but most importantly: what have you found to be unkillable?"

"if it were possible to go to berlin, to become independent, to live from day to day, even to go hungry, but to let all one's strength pour out instead of saving it here or rather turning away into nothingness!"

"after tormenting myself for a long time, I am stopping."

"I went where the sounds of the earth can't reach.
the edge of existence, where on becomes all,
where the part becomes the whole,
and there, I listened to the silence
that I've been trying to ignore
for such a long time.
the silence of an empty home
withing myself.
the home I've left behind.
but now, I'm finally back.
now, I feel this silence
with all my senses.
now, I fill this home
with all my soul."

"what is the seal of liberation? - no longer being ashamed in front of oneself."

"after tormenting myself for a long time, I am stopping."

"true humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."

"I made a promise: even if it meant becoming a stranger to my loved ones, even if it meant keeping secrets, I would have a life of my own."