I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... noth….

I minded my own business, and, unfortunately, so did everyone else..

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up t….

That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose th….

Have you ever had a broken heart?.

But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God..

I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teet….

Never console yourself into believing that the terror has passed, for it looms as large and evil today as it did in the despicable era of Bedlam. But….

I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. ….

If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one..

For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable terror that I deteriorated into….

I miss the comfort in being sad..

If you get old fashioned enough, you'll always be in style..

I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And af….

There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream..

To have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. It is not inherited, as with a family. It i….

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment..

I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget..