40 Quotes by Keith Ablow

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

I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.

God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces.

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

My throat tightened, but I held back the tears and reminded myself that withdrawing from a woman is no different than kicking a drug; you feel shaky and you want it, but eventually the need passes, and you feel restored.

Watching her, he saw again how she teetered between adolescence and adulthood, with a raw sensuality that had to deposit her in a kind of no-man's land--too much a woman for boys her own age, too young for fully adult men.

Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.

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

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