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"Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer."
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"Innocence is the ability to see things for what they are."
"When Tana was six, vampires were Muppets, endlessly counting, or cartoon villains in black cloaks with red polyester lining."
"Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled."
"As children play games with imaginary things, initially a seeker indulges in little things. So simple people believe in simple things."
"When we see an innocent child, this is an ordinary thing; but when we see an innocent adult, this is an extraordinary thing!"
"That Jim Crow there in the window," answered the urchin, holding out a cent, and pointing to the gingerbread figure that had attracted his notice, as he loitered along to school; "the one that has not a broken foot."
"And if not for the caterpillars and butterflies, who will I talk to? You'll be far away. And as for larger creatures, I'm not afraid. I have my thorns...to protect me."
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"The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare."
"I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison."
"Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control."
"Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause."
"There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill."
"The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape."
"When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life."
"That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life."
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