“This is how anger works. It hardens your tender skin and gives you the illusion of being wrapped in steel”

“If you aren't willing to face your demons-if you can't find the courage to take on your fear and hurt and anger-you might as well wrap them up with a bow and give them to your children. Because they will be carrying the same thing...unless you are willing to do the work”

“I still wasn’t convinced that tossing a shoe didn’t mean you harbored an anger-management problem, but I did understand love now. How it wrapped around you and made you more aware of the prickles on your skin, the roots of your hair, the intensity of every touch and every inch of you. It was like life on hi-def. Everything was sharper.”

“Interested in some ‘undercover’ work?And to think, I was actually having a tender thought about you. Do yourself a favor, Steele…Become mute.”

“We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless.”

“Life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, and then the same old shit starts up on Monday.”