...Some people hurt so much they can't take what they need, even when someone wants to give it to them. (106)

Relationships are never chance events.

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

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

...Some people hurt so much they can't take what they need, even when someone wants to give it to them. (106)

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)

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