“When people can do something simple to avoid conflict--say, hit a button or unlock a latch--they'll generally do it.”

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

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

“...Some people hurt so much they can't take what they need, even when someone wants to give it to them. (106)”

“...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)”

“Everything terrible is something that needs our love. - Rilke (231)”

“Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.”