" ...when people don't like you, you don't like yourself either, that's the way it goes, you learn to give certain answers to certain questions because that's the answer the person asking the question wants to hear, and before long you are inevitably caught up in a web of lies, lies that people are forced into telling because the truth doesn't make an impression, because the truth always fails, because it's never good enough.

What can you do if your story, which is so tragic that you imagine it will awaken people's sympathy, instead elicits hatred and violence? "

― Pajtim Statovci , Crossing