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

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

“Maybe learning to be human was about learning to live in pain, not trying to figure out how to live pain-free. (156)”

“...the horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us can cease to exist without warning, that loving anyone, anywhere, at any time, leaves you infinitely vulnerable at every single moment. (20)”

“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.”

“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.”

“Everyone - rich or poor, black or white, educated or not - is in emotional turmoil, in some sort of pain. (51)”