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

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.

Sometimes when you push someone, you find out who that person really is.

Relationships are never chance events.

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

People blush when one of their core truths is revealed.

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

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.

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

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

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

Teeny, it’ll never be a fair fight with Harry. You’re his Cadillac Ranch…but he’s your Chernobyl.” ~ Ruthie

I want to raise my kids, I want to get them through their teenage years. ... I do love my work with the UN and with PSVI so if I can do more of that and be more effective I will do whatever I can.

I am conscious of the fact that the subject of hell is not a very pleasant one. It is very unpopular, controversial and misunderstood.... As a minister, I must deal with it. I cannot ignore it.

Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you.

I own a book,' he thought, delighted (Paolini 291).

Nobody cares about Michael Cole!

When war is raging the laws are dumb.

I need to get everything straight. I'm not involved in a power struggle between black and white.

There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of something which transcends life.

Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.