Wrenching Quotes

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.

Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical. But it's what everyone wants - to get everyone's attention, to have your music make a living for you, to be validated in that way.

It's not so much I like to go win, but it's a rush. A horrible gut wrenching thing, but it's exciting.