Piper Kerman Quotes

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• When you are deep in misery, you reach out to those who can help, people who can understand.
• Do you have to find the evil in yourself in order to truly recognize it in the world?
• I knew that I would have to be brave. Not foolhardy, not in love with risk and danger, not making ridiculous exhibitions of myself to…
• If I could forgive, it meant I was a strong good person who could take responsibility for the path I had chosen for myself, and…
• From a young age I had learned to get over--to cover my tracks emotionally, to hide or ignore my problems in the belief that they…
• Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only the…
• I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for me at his…
• Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people leave prison more…
• Our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to make…
• Very close by the CMS shops, hidden about a quarter mile away in the woods, was the prison's rifle range. Correctional officers could spend quality…
• We were never friends. Not for a second. I loved you.

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