You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.

First find a path, and a little light to see by. Then push up your sleeves and start helping.

There was going to be a spot for me in this joint, the earth, after all. It was never going to be a great match for someone as bright and strange as me, but books were going to make it survivable.

Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.

Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.

If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to tell it.