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)

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

But that's the hardest part of healing.' What?' Realizing there's no one to hate.

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.

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.

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)