Honesty. Sobriety. My virginity. No way to regain the first two, I almost gave away the last.

Real love finds you once, if you're lucky.

Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?

But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever." Maybe because forever is such a scary place.

God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.

In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.

Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.

in a woman's womb.another chance.to make the world better.

I had never kissed a boy, had never even considered that I might enjoy such an unclean thing, until literature opened my eyes.

Hurt. Enough to want to make someone else hurt too.

I felt angry, frustrated.I felt I didn't belong, not in my, church, not in my home, not in my skin.

My artwork isn't evolving, it's deconstructing, and I don't know why.

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artifact of your mental illness.

The exercise of prayer in those who habitually exert it must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.

Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.

Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord Himself (who alone can say "I am with you"), can, when we have sinned, release us, unless we bring repentance with us.

I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

Richard Grieco once asked for a bunch of M&M's

As my friend said that when people say the church is full of hypocrites, he says we always have room for more.

The child that never learns to obey his parents in the home will not obey God or man out of the home.

He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.