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)

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

People blush when one of their core truths is revealed.

My throat tightened, but I held back the tears and reminded myself that withdrawing from a woman is no different than kicking a drug; you feel shaky and you want it, but eventually the need passes, and you feel restored.

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.

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

People react predictably, especially when they don't have time to think.