We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

I know Christianity; and I know I have to move away from it and approach Jesus Christ on my own. I have to talk to Him directly and seek His guidance and protection as I seek to make my commitment to Him central to my life.

I felt ravaged, and with both hands in a fantasy I reached out for her figure as we ran together through the meadow which belonged only to us and to which these others could never be admitted."Oh, inocent love," she said even as she drank from me, "oh, innocent innocent love."

Evil is just a point of view

When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you.

I don't believe in anything, Mother," I said. "You told Armand long ago that you believe you'll find answers in the great jungles and forests; that the stars will finally reveal a vast truth. But I don't believe in anything. And that makes me stronger than you think