I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

I miss the comfort in being sad.

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.

But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.