He had a thousand-year-old stare.

There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.

I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.

In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls.

I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.

Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.