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)

But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.

Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.

Deep down, everyone wants the truth.

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

A jealous husband is an ugly thing.

The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.