Susan Alexander

"The saddest thing is that I believe he cared."

"I wish someone had told me I was worth more."

"I spent my life performing for an audience of one."

"He showed me that power and love are different things."

"I was a singer, you know. I had a beautiful voice."

"He wanted me to be somebody I wasn't."

"I never wanted to be a star. Charles wanted that for me."

"Singing made me happy, before everything changed."

"He built me a palace, but it felt like a prison."

"Nobody understands what it's like to have your life decided by someone else."

"I tried so hard to please him, but it was never enough."

"The opera house was his dream, not mine."

"I was just a girl when I met him. Everything happened so fast."

"He said I had potential, but he meant he had plans for me."

"Singing in a nightclub was honest work. I was happy then."

"Love should make you feel free, not trapped."

"I never asked for any of this."

"The best part of my life was before I became Susan Kane."

"He wanted to mold me into something magnificent, but I was fine as I was."

"Every night on that stage, I felt like I was dying a little."

"I had a gift for music, but he insisted on controlling how I used it."

"Money can't buy you happiness, no matter what they tell you."

"He collected things - art, newspapers, and eventually me."

"I wish I had been braver when I was young."

"The applause meant nothing when he was disappointed in me."

"I learned that you can't force someone to love you the way you want to be loved."

"Those early days, before the opera, those were real."

"He saw what he wanted to see, not who I really was."

"I gave up my singing career for him. I sometimes wonder if that was the biggest mistake."

"Xanadu was supposed to be paradise. It was anything but."