When people can do something simple to avoid conflict--say, hit a button or unlock a latch--they'll generally do it.

The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.

Relationships are never chance events.

The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.

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)

Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.