Guilt is a destructive and ultimately pointless emotion

One of the most dangerous myths surrounding eating disorders is that they are a life sentence.

If one takes responsibility for the mistakes, he is the true person, isn’t it? Do not insist. Instead of insisting, instead of blaming others, take the responsibility of the mistakes on your head!

There are as many life missions as there are people. We are all unique. We are all important.

He wanted more, as did I, but we still had a ways to go. I wasn’t a tease and my demands seemed pretty reasonable: always be honest and try not to eat me. ~ Sam, Living Violet

The scraps of information she’d gathered knocked against each other, like balls in a pinball machine in one of the arcades on the front. Secrets drew her in every time – the unsaid.

I wear the word victim like a badge of honor — my own purple heart. I see what others do more than I see what I'm capable of.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

Lying covers a multitude of sins - temporarily.

The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.

There is no short cut to truth, no way to gain a knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of scientific method.

I come to work on time. I focus on my job. I bust my scenes out and everything else kind of happens from there.