People blush when one of their core truths is revealed.

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

...the horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us can cease to exist without warning, that loving anyone, anywhere, at any time, leaves you infinitely vulnerable at every single moment. (20)

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

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

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