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

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.

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

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Be my shield, baby. Be my world

The Bible is a hologram and Jesus is on every page.

There have always been readers throughout history who have been drawn to villains.

I was really hyperactive as a kid and no one knew how or where I got all this energy.

Success builds character, failure reveals it.

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

It is better to lose than never to have had.

Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world.

I'll be back so soon you won't have time to miss me. Look after my heart I've left it with you