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

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

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

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.

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)

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.

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.