You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life to live.
Marya HornbacherWe turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.
Marya HornbacherOne really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind was fast becoming blends, in my memory, with the dark womb of church: the chant, the fugue of prayer, the strange erotic energy that carving a very small cross into my thigh with a nail had brought.
Marya Hornbacher