Give yourself five minutes to consider how you can turn a miserable situation to your benefit and that light bulb is going to click on.

Ever since that happened to me, I haven't been able to give myself to anyone in this world.

I'm not going to get involved in a debate with you. Just remember this: the gods give, and the gods take away. Even if you are not aware of having been granted what you posses, the gods remember what they gave you. They don't forget a thing. You should use the abilities you have been granted with the utmost care.

Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't keep on living like this.

I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do it. Whenever I was able to do something I liked to do, though, when I wanted to do it, and the way I wanted to do it, I'd give it everything I had.