The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.

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.

...the horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us can cease to exist without warning, that loving anyone, anywhere, at any time, leaves you infinitely vulnerable at every single moment. (20)

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

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

I think men should be able to veto women's abortions if they're willing to care for the child after it's born.