Quotes from Audrey Hepburn, 1990

There's a curious thing about pain or hardship. In the beginning, it's an enemy, it's something that you don't want to face or think about or deal with. Yet with time it becomes almost a friend. If you've lost someone you love very much, in the beginning you can't bear it, but as the years go by, the pain of losing them is what reminds you so vividly of them — that they were alive.

Being without food, fearful for one's life, the bombings — all made me so appreciative of safety, of liberty.