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.

"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"

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.

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

What cook can match herself against hunger and memory?

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.

If I want to die, what am I saving myself for?