“The places and people in the following stories have been represented accurately to the best of my ability; yet my writing is supposed to be a tale, and as in any historical novel, my own imagination has blended with fact to create poetical reality. ”

“My wish has always been to write my own story, to create a life that’s worth writing about. But is a story worth anything at all if I have no one to tell it to?”

“No person, place, or thing has any power over me, for I am the only thinker in my mind. I create my own reality and everyone in it.”

“I say “Out” to every negative thought that comes to my mind. No person, place, or thing has any power over me, for I am the only thinker in my mind. I create my own reality and everyone in it.”

“I have been with this family through all thier joys and tragedies, and if there was a tragedy in my existance, it was creating me in the first place. For they dared to give me the concept of love and compassion, yet witheld my ability to cry.”

“My story - my own personal story - ended before my writing began. Storytelling has only ever been a way of filling in the time since everything finished.”