“Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.”

“But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.”

“Sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage.”

“There are moments that define a person's whole life. Moments in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become balance on a single decision. Life and death, hope and despair, victory and failure teeter precariously on the decision made at that moment. These are moments ungoverned by happenstance, untroubled by luck. These are the moments in which a person earns the right to live, or not.”

“Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.”

“Things said and done innocently should never be used as weapons.”

“Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.”