Because depression is so thematically powerful and so dark, when it's very severe, it can make people feel not only as if they've lost a loving connection, but as if the whole world is devoid of love. So if we wonder how somebody could take 149 people with him when he commits suicide, one answer can be that depression, when it's most severe, can make people feel that life is completely without value, not just for them but for anyone.

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.

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

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

People blush when one of their core truths is revealed.

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