“It's by understanding me, and the boys, and mother, that you have helped me. I expect that is the only way one person ever really can help another.”
“It seems to me that the only way one can be helpful is to extend one's hand to someone else involuntarily, and without ever knowing how useful this will be.”
“So what if you can seeThe darkest side of me.No one will ever change this animal I have become.Help me believe It's not the real me. Somebody help me tame this animal I have become.”
“I hate you' she said to me one afternoon. 'I really, really hate you.' Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help but take it personally.”
“Having five cats around the house helps me have no expectations. They are not goal-fulfilling creatures in any human sense. There is little one can expect of a cat.”
“I am closed off into myself and no one but me can ever help me get out.”