“The dusty tombs of long-dead exorcist priests lay in the alcoves below, surmounted by stone effigies, the features eroded by the passing of time and the reverent caresses of their grateful parishioners, a reminder, she knew all too well, of the brevity of life.”

“All what we think and know is an illusion. Nothing exists. Everything is an opinion.”

“My goal in life is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared”

“I revere the Bill of Rights, but at the same time I believe that anyone who's using three or more of them at a time is hogging them too much. (152)”

“Who we’re told to be carries the weight of history behind it. We may not like it but we better know it. Who we’re told to be is no accident, but rather a purposeful construction of centuries of accumulated fear. Who we’re told to be can be deliberately deconstructed.”

“I am real, I am alive, & I deserve....”

“Fanny May LeakBorn Poplar, London 1886”