To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.

If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual’s pain gained meaning was through its communication to others.

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for...

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

You think if you don’t talk about it, you can just pretend everything is all right? Everything is not all right. Not with us, not with your parents, not with anything today. And if you...

It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.

Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.