“If God had called me up to heaven, and told me that I was allowed to build a man to belong to me, I would have built myself a Kayden.”

“If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world”

“I have told myself you are not allowed to hurt me anymore. That's what hurts the most.”

“I had struggled so hard and so long that I had simply exhausted myself, only to find that God had all the time in the world to wait for me to allow Him to free me.”

“I do not like that I allowed my past to close me off. I do not like that I let circumstances rob me of the ability to have a normal relationship with a man, to have friends, to be happy. I do not like it, but I had felt myself powerless against it.”

“...because one morning as the sun was coming up I told myself that I had to swallow up all of the fear and garbage around me, and once it was inside me I had to transform it all into candy. Becuase I know you will be able to love me for it. ”