“I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.”

“I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.”

“…I’d have died without them [books]. Even now I’m not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I’ve gotten from books.”

“My biggest mistake: not wanting to help myself into thinking I am happy, that change would come about without really trying to change, or wanting to change. Procrastinating about changing. I do want to change.”

“I only know that I am now a priestess of Satan trying to maintain after a freak-out to test how free everybody was and to take our vows.”

“What do you know about love? Are your feelings more holy than mine? Am I exempt from the knowledge of love until I become “of age?” Do I automatically become human enough when I start loving you and seeing things your way?”

“They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!”