I want to drag knives over my skin, just so that I can feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough to do that.

I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that

To have my hopes raised and dashed again, it's like cold steel twisting in my gut.

I wake abruptly, my breath jagged and heart racing, my mouth stale, and I know immediately that's it. I'm awake. The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.

I'm well aware that there is no job more important than that of raising a child, but the problem is that it isn't valued.

A tiding of magpies: One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told

Life and light will not let me be.

I sit there on the floor with the picture in front of me and think about how things get broken all the time by accident, and how sometimes you just don't get round to getting them fixed.

I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.

So who do I want to be tomorrow?

Let's be honest: women are still only really valued for two things--their looks and their role as mothers. I'm not beautiful, and I can't have kids, so what does that make me? Worthless.

To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.

Let gratitude be awakened; let humility be deepened; let love be quickened.

Cannot find the comfort in this world.

I am working on it but I don't thinking having a good serve is the most important thing. It is about a lot of things coming together that makes you a good player.

Chicago is a pretty good town.

As a mom, you just don't have time, so you get straight to the point.

I can control the weather with my moods. I just can’t control my moods.

Perhaps it is time to be more careful what we ask government to do, and where we allow it to become part of our lives.

But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.

In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas- and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed.