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

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.

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.

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

Тo me, the future doesn’t seem real. It’s just this magical place where I can put my responsibilities so that I don’t have to be scared while hurtling toward failure at eight hundred miles per hour.

Dive down into the deepest depth of your soul there you will find your ocean of wisdom.

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.

Not being impressed by anyone or anything is one of the surest paths to a life of mediocrity.

it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

But Jesus and Christianity have a tenuous relationship at best.

If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.

I'm aware that dialogue isn't my strength. I use it as a device. I don't particularly like dialogue which is part of the problem.

The general will is always right.