He put a dark place in me and I can't forgive him for that. But it's a part of me now and how can I regret what I am - though it often makes me sad.

Valerie Martin


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Sex can be estranging; it can drive two otherwise compatible people apart.

Valerie Martin

Tags: sex



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(M)uch as we might imagine we can leave the past behind, it has a nasty way of pressing its hoary old face against the window just as we were sitting down to the feast.

Valerie Martin

Tags: past



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One feels relieved these days when a play is not like television.

Valerie Martin

Tags: drama



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(A) trip to the attic is an excursion into history, and...all over the world the present unravels beneath the stored detritus of the past; that's what attics are for.

Valerie Martin

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Everyone else felt the need to assure me that Mother's death was part of God's plan. Exactly, I wanted to shout after reading this sentiment half a dozen times--- his plan is to kill us all, and if an innocent child dies in agony and a wicked man breathes his last at an advanced age in his sleep, who are we to call it injustice?

Valerie Martin

Tags: injustice god cynicism death religion grief



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...most people never experience such a passion, that I had been incredibly, divinely fortunate to have found, in a world where most souls dig there own graves with the sharp edge of their bitter loneliness...

Valerie Martin


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...because it requires the total surrender of my will and finally, ultimately, the wholesale destruction of my ego. That is hard. It I'm going to another world, I cry out, I want to be ME in it.

Valerie Martin


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I've caused you pain, and I'm sorry for it,' she said. 'But perhaps that pain will keep you from forgetting me.

Valerie Martin


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The air was still. It was that hour before evening when the sun sheds great horizontal beams just above the horizon and the air itself reveals levels of dust and insect life previously unthought of.

Valerie Martin

Tags: nature



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