"i have tried to love the sinner and only hate the sin but whoever wrote that never got caught in a dark corner with him"

Cosy Sheridan

"…and there's too much going on

but it's calm under the waves, in the blue of my oblivion

Under the waves in the blue of my oblivion

is that why they call me a sullen girl - sullen girl

they don't know i used to sail the deep and tranquil sea

but he washed me shore, and he took my pearl -

and left an empty shell of me…"

Fiona Apple

"I've got enough guilt to start my own religion."

Tori Amos

"Self-preservation is a full time occupation"

Ani Difranco

"I am not angry girl but it seems like I've got everyone fooled. Every time I say something they find hard to hear they chalk it up to my anger and never to their own fear."

Ani Difranco

"I just want to feel safe in my own skin. I just want to be happy again. I just want to feel deep in my own world."

Dido

"She’s been everybody else’s girl, maybe one day she’ll be her own."

Tori Amos