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

Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children... it is the reason that one human being's intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.

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

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.

But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.

People blush when one of their core truths is revealed.

Relationships are never chance events.