There's no original evil left in the world. Everyone's just recycling pain. (257)

But that's the hardest part of healing.' What?' Realizing there's no one to hate.

Deep down, everyone wants the truth.

My throat tightened, but I held back the tears and reminded myself that withdrawing from a woman is no different than kicking a drug; you feel shaky and you want it, but eventually the need passes, and you feel restored.

I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.

God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces, which is why sharing pain freely feels very much like love, and may be the same thing. (207)

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.