fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.

I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time.

I know the mistake I am making. I see the exits in life.

I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant.

... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.

All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.

I am not kind, I cut people off as with shears and I drop them like nettles.