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

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.

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

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)

Sometimes when you push someone, you find out who that person really is.

We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers, strokes, hatred, even war.

The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.