“(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 Copy Share Image
“...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… — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
“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… — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
“Actors are superstitious about beggars, perhaps because we're largely in the same line.” — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
“But you said you no longer care for the world's opinion," I said to him, "nor will I.” — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
“Sex can be estranging; it can drive two otherwise compatible people apart.” — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
“What was the good at having an ideal if everyone is trying to beat everyone else at admitting how impossible it is to achieve… — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
“And it seemed to me that longing was everything, longing is all we are.” — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
“One feels relieved these days when a play is not like television.” — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
“...most people never experience such a passion, that I had been incredibly, divinely fortunate to have found, in a world where most souls dig… — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
“I see I have this patience to wait it out, and the truth is no matter how dark I feel I would never take… — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
“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… — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
“Self-inflicted pain has a calming effect; it clears the head, diminishes one's fascination with the ego, and most important, gives one the sense of… — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The natural beauty of the earth made hard for me to consider the pathetic struggle of humans on the face of it. The great… — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
