What cook can match herself against hunger and memory?

The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!

A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches.

The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.

Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.

The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.

...to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert, so great that anyone's violence or agony seemed an oasis, and the brief companionship seemed like a rain in the desert that was numbered and counted and remembered long after it was gone.