Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed.

People must do what they must do. We all don't think alike or act alike and it's wrong to-to judge others by ourselves.

In a weak moment, I have written a book.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?

But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.

Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.