“It's important to have fun. Survival is more than making sure we have enough food and water.”

“What does your anxiety do? It does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but it empties today of its strength. It does not make you escape the evil; it makes you unfit to cope with it if it comes.”

“It's like a drug, the feeling you could make a difference....”

“The plants in the garden - the aloes, the almond tree, the rose tree and the iris - were afraid of her. The flowers withered under her breath and the touch of her hand was leprous for the leaves. The plants whose growth is belief, whose breathing is hope, whose immobility is confidence and whose calyx is prayer, the plants who kept watch into the night, hated this women with the secret force of stars.”

“I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun. ”

“Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun." "We are ugly.”

“Doing what you're supposed to do is always boring. I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.”