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

Deep down, everyone wants the truth.

What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?

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

Because depression is so thematically powerful and so dark, when it's very severe, it can make people feel not only as if they've lost a loving connection, but as if the whole world is devoid of love. So if we wonder how somebody could take 149 people with him when he commits suicide, one answer can be that depression, when it's most severe, can make people feel that life is completely without value, not just for them but for anyone.

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.