We look into our hearts and see objectivity; we look into our minds and see rationality; we look into our beliefs and see reality.

Become your own soulmate. Then you'll always have someone watching your back, and you'll always have someone who loves you.

Everything around me affirmed there was nothing else I could do – yet everything inside me cried that I was not doing enough.

The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely.

God has given us all our unique story. It's not one that flows easily or pretty, but the story is ours! Find it and treasure it...

For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer reach them.

I wear the word victim like a badge of honor — my own purple heart. I see what others do more than I see what I'm capable of.

Fortunately the Omanis are generally very friendly and in no time at all, I had a knight in shining white dishdasha offering to help me.

She has learned to love. To fear. To hate. And then to love again. Through it all, she writes.” ~Once Upon A Time There Was A Girl

He would never admit it, but he did have a heart of gold under all that crud.Solid, hard, impenetrable gold, but still gold, nonetheless.

To me he seemed one of those persons destined to failure of whom you wonder what purpose it can ever serve that they should have ben born.

Haunted by demons of the past, hounded by demons not yet met, the nevermore and evermore left her little peace.” ~A Tale of Two Women

How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist.

I avoided one-on-one situations, eye contact, and healthy relationships. Instead I took refuge in drinking too much, cheap sex, and sarcasm.

What character with any sense of aesthetics desires a cradle-to-grave account of himself? That’s so passé, so nineteenth-century.