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

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".

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

A nut is someone whose noose broke.

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.

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