Freakishness could happen to anyone at any time.

- Cammie Mcgovern

This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.

- Cammie Mcgovern

Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.

- Cammie Mcgovern

Let's don't wait forever for our lives to start. Let's begin them ourselves. Let's be fearless for once and say, we can do this.

- Cammie Mcgovern

I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having…

- Cammie Mcgovern

I have learned that some people who look fine are more crippled than I am, by fears they can’t explain. Other people are held back by shyness, or ang…

- Cammie Mcgovern

I thought helping someone else might take me out of my own head for a while.

- Cammie Mcgovern