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'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"

There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.

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

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.

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.

What cook can match herself against hunger and memory?