“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.”

“There's no original evil left in the world. Everyone's just recycling pain. (257)”

“But that's the hardest part of healing.'What?'Realizing there's no one to hate.”

“People react predictably, especially when they don't have time to think.”

“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.”

“The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.”

“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)”