“i am soft again.there is water and it surrounds me.there is feeling and i can feel it.i am awake and aliveand swollen and heavy with love.i am changingand i am loving change.”

“He always called me Daughter. It was to distinguish me from his sister Ava. I loved being called Daughter. It sounded so possessive, and to be possessed when you are a child is just a wonderful feeling. It makes you feel safe. It makes you feel loved.”

“And I won 'em back fair and square. So what are you going to do about it? Want to fight? Who wants the first bloody nose?”

“So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.”

“And the news got worse. It appeared that there was this whole other person Jesus Christ whose birthday a lot of people tended to confuse with mine. I was personally outraged. It was a long time before I forgave the Lord for that.”

“God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.”

“Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don't think they understood me.”

“my feelings tend to last longerthan my lovers doand it's made a monsterout of my heart.”

“i let you love me.i let you take care of me.i let you do things to meno one was allowed to do before.”

“i do not know how to live tepidly.i was never built to fit in.i live by my souland my soul is insane.”

“through the rose glass window in their beautiful new home, you stare at the love you gave away.”