Piper Kerman Quotes

When you are deep in misery, you reach out to those who can help, people who can understand.

From a young age I had learned to get over--to cover my tracks emotionally, to hide or ignore my problems in the belief that they were mine alone to solve.

We were never friends. Not for a second. I loved you.

Do you have to find the evil in yourself in order to truly recognize it in the world?

Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people leave prison more broken than when they went in.

Maybe, because all these good people loved me enough to help me, maybe I wasn't quite as bad as I felt. Maybe there was a part of me that was worthy of their love.

Don't tell me what to do - you have eight numbers after your name just like me.

We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.