“All bad nights come to an end.”

“I want things so bad that I force them, push them until they tear.”

“Death is the period at the end of a sentence.Someone gone, but still out there, is an ellipsis...or a question to be answered.”

“Protection does not come in a bottle. It is in me, in my actions, in my thoughts. I am the best medicine for myself. I am the cure and the disease.”

“All of a sudden the world opened upand it's doing it again now.In this garden there are so many stories,so many other problems besides mine.”

“I am trying to find myselfin all of the chaos,find something that I can call meinside the screams and insidethe 'you shoulds' and 'you have to bes.”

“I have only a general sense of the pain, of not being able to control my body and my thoughts. All I ever wanted was to have control- to be in charge of myself and the rest of the world.”