“I found an inner strength to fight for myself. It was clear that nobody else would.”

“My mind became a sanctuary for secret thoughts of escaping from this household.”

“There will be a great imbalance in our strengths if we fight, because I am prepared to die and you are desperate to live.”

“Looking back, I realized that we were being raised to be schizophrenic; an appearance of perfection was more important than genuine feelings”

“He was, however, unable to give much prolonged or continuous thought to anything that evening , or to concentrate on any one idea; and anyway, even if he had been able to, he would not have found h...”

“Nature can counsel nothing but crime.”

“A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.”