“I feel like I’m a veteran at this now.”

Especially last year in Ottawa, I had a whole section my grandpa got for all my family, and the skating club (supported me).

Tomorrow, I just have to do a good long program.

I feel great. I’m right there for the top two. I know my long is a very strong program and I’ve had lots of success with it, so I feel confident going into the long. Just fix up that loop.

There’s more coming tomorrow than there was today. Quite a few people coming from Ottawa to watch.

There were still a lot of people out there today. Some coming from farther tomorrow.

After Russia (winning bronze at Rostelecom Cup), I’m one of the top Canadian ladies.

The last two years, nationals have been close to home for me, so I’ve had big family support from friends and club support.

A feeling of violation swayed inside me, making me feel as if id been shoved off a high platform without warning. I was falling, and i feared the sensation far more than hitting bottom. There was no end; just a constantsense of gravity having its way with me.

Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.

Seriously, I’ve just realized that almost everyone is a fraud, so I try not to feel too bad about it.

It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.

People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.

Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don’t really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don’t think you could do this.

Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.