Our role as humans is to recognize the complexity of others.

C'mon Pudge. I'm teasing. You have to be tough. I didn't know how bad it was-- and I'm sorry, and they'll regret it-- but you have to be tough.

You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.

maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again.

When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.

Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food.