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Box held seven hammered-gold rings, each as thin as manila paper, to be worn stacked. And he had gotten himself a ring too,

Now I was a for-real, hardened con. I felt infinitely better. Piper Kerman, Orange is the New Black, page 54

The advice I got from many quarters was 'do your time, don't let the time do you.

All this freedom, but I still feel like I'm locked up.

We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.

You're looking for logic in all the wrong places.

Some of the mothers looked overwhelmed - they were no longer accustomed to supervising their own kids in a normal, day-to-day way.

You could worship loudly and still act pretty lousy.

I guess trick, Delicious. I am flat out of sweetness.

I certainly didn't look like a gangster, but I had a gangster mentality. Gangsters only care about themselves and theirs.

Two hundred women, no phones, no washing machines, no hair dryers
it was like Lord of the Flies on estrogen.

Don't tell me what to do - you have eight numbers after your name just like me.

I imagined Martha Stewart trying to take over Pops kitchen. That would be better than Godzilla vs. Mothra

It is hard to conceive of any relationship between two adults in America being less equal than that of prisoner and prison guard.

We'll figure it out." He said, "It will all work out. Because I love you.

When you are deep in misery, you reach out to those who can help, people who can understand.