all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.

suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.

Worrying is one of my few forms of prayer.

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.

What cook can match herself against hunger and memory?

all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.

I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things, he said, 'Why before the world does them.' I asked him then, 'Why not wait and see what the world will do?' and he said, 'Don't you see? It always come at last, but this way at least I am master of my own destruction.