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.

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

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

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.

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

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