“On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from reality and her own experience. In troubled families, abuse and neglect are pe...”

“Humor is the honey in my tea.”

“Because children take everything personally, they believe that if they are being mistreated, it's because they haven't been good enough. Being good as an adult makes them believe, incorrectly, that...”

“I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.”

“The only reason that some people arent ashamed of their parents and/or siblings is because they know that we know that they did not choose them.”

“What a shabby lot of highbrows have turned out tonight," he said, when he saw us. "It makes me ashamed to be one.”

“I hug him tightly. I cant imagine my life without you, Christian. I love you so much it frightens me. Me, too, he breathes. My life would be empty without you. I love you so much.”

“Among my stillness was a pounding heart.”

“I take my hand back, like a leaf letting go. It hurts too much to hang on. So why does it hurt so much to let go?”

“Dont give people what they want, give them what they need.”

“The problem of the world is that it needs silence... compassion and passion. Once it's found, the world will be changed.”

“Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure you do but store the desire in the recesses of your being.Who knows but that which seems omitted today, waits for tomorrow?Even your body knows its heritage ...”