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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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