“A child, without toxic interference, will naturally become the person they are meant to be. Andr Chevalier”

“I have found that sometimes when a person gives up on 'humankind' they can often find trust and love in animal kind. Andr Chevalier”

“Abuse? Ah. Such problems, even with time, do not go away on their own. They must be addressed. Andr Chevalier”

“The actions and emotional responses of others are not your responsibility. You cannot rescue people from themselves. This is for them to do. Andr Chevalier”

“What has been done to you is one thing. Yet to really suffer, to truly be burdened with guilt and shame, such pain always begins not with what has been done to youbut with what you have done. Andr ...”

“Strange how mean words can return to ones thoughts, years after theyve been callously thrown at you. They replay in your mind, spiking a sense of remembered pain. Nasty name calling can be an ugly ...”

“They will hate you if you are beautiful. They will hate you if you are successful. They will hate you if you are right. They will hate you if you are popular. They will hate you when you get attent...”

“But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be there. And eventually all of th...”

“Cinderella was such a dork. She left behind her glass slipper at the ball and then went right back to her step-monster's house. It seems to me she should have worn the glass slipper always, to make...”

“I chanced on a wonderful book by Marius von Senden, called Space and Sight. . . . For the newly sighted, vision is pure sensation unencumbered by meaning: "The girl went through the experience that...”

“The hoopoe said: 'Your heart's congealed like ice;When will you free yourself from cowardice?Since you have such a short time to live here,What difference does it make? What should you fear?The wor...”

“When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?”