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

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

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

For a psychiatrist to be any good, he has to be willing to corner you, close off the easy exits, even when it hurts. It's supposed to. (46)

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

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

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