“I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw it, and I could not see a way to mend it.”

“I keep going;I keep writing because I know something good will happen, and I want to see it when it happens.”

“I knew more things than I could tell, and I felt something terrible was going to happen in a short time.”

“It is a terrible thing to want something you cannot have. It takes you over. I couldn't think straight because of it. There was no one else, I realized, whom I could possibly tell.”

“There is a kind of crying I hope you have not experienced, and it is not just crying about something terrible that has happened, but a crying for all of the terrible things that have happened, not just to you but to everyone you know and to everyone you don’t know and even the people you don’t want to know, a crying that cannot be diluted by a brave deed or a kind word, but only by someone holding you as your shoulders shake and your tears run down your face.”

“You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.”