A novel is a map of the human heart, a guide to the depths of our emotions

So much of the Western tradition deals with the most despairing and angst-ridden emotions, but they’re movies made for kids. It’s as if America was trying to pass on an unpleasant but necessary lesson of life: that you were alone, and you needed to toughen up and shut up

Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.

As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is

When many people gather together to share one common emotion, the total psyche emerging from the group is below the level of the individual psyche

Shame is a soul-eating emotion.

My father’s love was always strong / My mother’s glamour lives on and on / Yet still inside, I felt alone / For reasons unknown to me.