"I can't pinpoint exactly when I began to lose my flexibility, my ability to bounce back from an unsettling incident; I can only look back and see that it's gone. Going on trial for a crime I didn't commit screwed me up a bit, no doubt" (Chapter Two, p. 26).

"If I hadn't been sent to prison at such a young age there's no way I could ever have adapted to it. Prison is bad enough, but it's a million times worse when you know you did nothing to be here for" (Chapter Two, p. 27).

"My mother denied later that they treated me like this. She has a very convenient way of forgetting and rearranging the past to fit whatever view she currently wishes to promote, much like the history changers in George Orwell's 1984" (Chapter Four, p. 49).

"If I would have known then that in just a few short...