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

A jealous husband is an ugly thing.

Most children would rather preserve the fantasy of a loving connection with their fathers and mothers, at all costs, even if it costs them their self-esteem. When you're three or seven years old, it's less frightening to think of yourself as an unlovable, disappointing screwup than to recognize the fact that you're living with a monster.

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

Relationships are never chance events.

Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.

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