“The only way to help me stop suffering was to help me die.”

“Something in me is broken but people don't realize it because I always smile to hide it.”

“I was thirsty, as much as for water as for dying.”

“Sometimes laying in my bed, I would think that I should have died because I deserved to.”

“It is probably the only memory of real joy I have in the madness of my past.”

“But for a mother who was submissive to the degree my mother was, it was OK to kill girls. For a father like mine, it was normal to chop off his daughters hair with sheep shears, and to beat her with a belt or a cane or tie her up in the stable all night with the cows.”

“You're just an object locked up in the house.”