You can see when someone's been hurt the way I was. It's obvious. Something changes in their eyes; pain becomes their center, even when they try to hide it.

My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.

I know you're upset, I know you're scared, but don't walk away.

I think you've got to get out whatever's hurting you through your art, so it doesn't twist you up inside.

I hate my body Hate what it remembers. Hate what it let him do.

If I don’t do what feels right to me, what I need and want to do, then am I really living?

I know I'm not to blame for what he did. And I know, too, that I am strong inside--stronger than I ever realized.

If I want to get out of here, I have to be the one to save myself.

I should know better than anyone--you can't tell who a person is just from his looks.

You don't deserve the anger you're turning on yourself. Your abuser's the one who does.

It was the freedom to experiment that made this experiment called Freedom possible.

O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good: for his mercy endureth forever.

Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.

If you want to be holy, be kind.

Like fingerprints, all marriages are different.

I like all the things that make you monstrous.

The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.

Satan is a tool of God's love in the sense that he forces us to see God's loving patience.

Your story is where you take it to, not where you start.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.