The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of the meaning itself".

I have found this to be true, that one sin begets a dozen others.

What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?

suicide is a crime - the only crime that, if successful, guarantees that the perpetrator will not be punished for it. This makes it the most serious crime of all.

Worrying is one of my few forms of prayer.

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.

I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else." The second part was more a plea, and to her surprise the superbly inhuman fighter smiled softly and said, "Yes ... I suppose that's true, though I never thought of it in those terms before.