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

People react predictably, especially when they don't have time to think.

People blush when one of their core truths is revealed.

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)

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

Relationships are never chance events.

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.