“The whole crazy business seemed to pull out of my guts the very worst in me—my worst fears—the worst aspects of my character—my worst insecurities and feelings of shame and guilt. I didn't know it at the time, but that was exactly what was supposed to be happening. That's what Solomonic magick is all about. The worst in me was my problem. The worst in me was the demon. When it finally dawned on me that I had successfully evoked the demon, and I had the worst of me trapped in that magick Triangle, I had no alternative but to harness and redirect its monstrous power and give it new marching orders. From then on, that particular demon would be working for me rather than against me.”
“You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to.”
“The worst is knowing I can't tell anybody what's happening -or what's happened- to me. Not even my mom.”
“Hell didn't make me a monster. It just confirmed all my worst fears about myself.”
“…the death of my mother was the thing that made me believe the most deeply in my safety: nothing bad could happen to me, I thought. The worst thing already had.”
“She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.”