“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...”

“Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.”

“The power to compel is not the same thing as leadership, and one does inspire the other. You are not a leader, Walters, you are a bully and a coward of the worst kind. the fear you believe you insp...”

“If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.”

“I know...and I love you. But I don't think we love each other in the same way. And...I think keeping you near me, would destroy me.”

“Love those who hurt you the most, because they are probably the ones closest to you.They, too, are on a path, and just like you they are learning to walk before they can fly. Imagine of everybody y...”

“It takes only one word to hurt a woman, a matter of seconds, one stupid, impatient blow of the crop. But winning back her trust takes years. And sometimes there isn't the time.”