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….

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 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….

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..

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

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….

I miss the comfort in being sad..

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….

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 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….

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….

Have you ever had a broken heart?.

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

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

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

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..