Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid.

- Lucy Freeman

Murder is the apex of megalomania, the ultimate in control.

- Lucy Freeman

The outer prisons are made by the community to contain those who have dared break its laws. The inner prisons each man makes for himself because of w…

- Lucy Freeman

often when I thought I joked, I told the truth, afraid to speak it except in jest.

- Lucy Freeman

each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting pare…

- Lucy Freeman

Usually the things you dislike in a person are his defenses against fear.

- Lucy Freeman

... the unnatural ways we substitute for the natural prove not enough and soon there must be more and more unnaturalness, more and more violence.

- Lucy Freeman

Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life.

- Lucy Freeman

Anxiety was comfortable to me because it was familiar. If none existed, unconsciously I stirred it up to destroy the unfamiliarity of calm.

- Lucy Freeman