Each time he came he would twist my defenceless body into a different pose, as if I were his very own doll

She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?

Today is the day after my wedding. And nothing is the way I expected it to be.

The quiet but inexorable breaking down of self-esteem is much more sinister - it’s violation of the soul.

Who, being loved, is poor?

We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

Real smart begins when you quit quoting other people.

I'm tired and angry at me. For letting myself get smaller and smaller in the hopes that he would notice me more. But how can someone notice you if you keep getting smaller?

To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.

One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.

At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.

Any time you build a company designed to be sold, you ultimately get less value if it's sold.

The greatest use of your words is prayer. Talk to God about EVERYTHING, all the time. Maintain a running conversation.

Just snow and sapphire and ink.