You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.

This is what it always comes down to, I realized. There are the ones who believe, and the ones who don't, and caught in the space between them are guns.

Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?

You know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really heinous crimes, we want to know that there's a really heinous punishment. Simple as that. We want to bring society closer together-huddle and circle our wagons-and that means getting rid of people we think are incapable of learning a moral lesson. I guess the question is: Who gets to identify those people? And what if, God forbid, they got it wrong?

Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to.

true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?