Cammie McGovern

“I've decided that it's possible to LOVE someone for entirely SELFLESS reasons, for all of their flaw and weaknesses, and still NOT…

— 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…

— Cammie McGovern

“This feeling will pass. The fear is real but the danger is not.”

— Cammie McGovern

“He stood in front of her and told her he'd come, not to climb her tower but to shelter it. In his…

— Cammie McGovern

“Her idea had a beautiful simplicity at first.”

— Cammie McGovern

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

— Cammie McGovern

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

— Cammie McGovern

“The real problem with his type of OCD--chronic fear of hurting other people--was that you thought so much about not running over…

— Cammie McGovern

Freakishness could happen to anyone at any time.

— 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

“Don't worry. Here's the thing I've learned about pregnancy. Everything feels like a crisis and everything turns out to be heartburn.”

— Cammie McGovern

“Stains were a patchwork of mistakes you couldn't get rid of. They showed the world your real self, even the parts you…

— 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…

— 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…

— Cammie McGovern