I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.

The seeds are tiny, unborn things, and I resent them. They'll be planted and they'll grow into exactly what they're meant to be.

When we were first married, I thought he must have been the most heartless, hateful man I'd ever known, but he was just as much a prisonor as I was. Where Vaughn imprisoned me with walls, he imprisoned his son with ignorance.

Forget who you are and what you think is there, and you'll discover things that don't exist to be known.

A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.

Tell freedom I said hello.' 'If I happen to see it, I will.

There’s a limit to how much living can be done in a life without freedom.