有时候你必须穿过黑暗才能到达光明。
Sometimes you have to go through the darkness to get to the light.
Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
"The beauty of literature lies in its ability to transcend time and space."