“The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.”

“People blush when one of their core truths is revealed.”

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

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

“What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?”

“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.”

“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)”