“A jealous husband is an ugly thing.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I shook my head at all the things that can happen to break a man as he grows up and away from the pure potential of infancy, all the things that had fractured inside me. And I prayed silently that this infant, born into chaos, might meet with kindness, experience joy and find passion in life. Every one of us ought to be able to count on that much. (308)”

“My throat tightened, but I held back the tears and reminded myself that withdrawing from a woman is no different than kicking a drug; you feel shaky and you want it, but eventually the need passes, and you feel restored.”

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

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