For a psychiatrist to be any good, he has to be willing to corner you, close off the easy exits, even when it hurts. It's supposed to. (46)

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.

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

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)

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

I don't expect people to feel sorry for me. My teammates get more upset about the criticism and booing than I do.

That out of sight is out of mind is true of most we leave behind.

I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.

I have been lucky in that I've been alive at times when the things that I wanted to do were capable of being done.

Don't ever let your memories be bigger than your dreams.

You can't just make me different, and the leave. Because I was fine before.

Once you've danced, you always dance. You can't deny the gifts that God sends your way

Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.

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