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)

What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?

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.

A jealous husband is an ugly thing.

Deep down, everyone wants the truth.

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

People blush when one of their core truths is revealed.