Quotes from Stephen White

Secrets aren't secret. They're just hidden treasures, waiting to be exploited.

Batterers aren't renowned for taking responsibility for their abusiveness, Sam. They tend to shed blame like a snake molts.

His voice carried authority the way Ben & Jerry's carries calories.

Joining the church felt like joining a secret club; and you learned the rules after you joined. The first rule of the church was: Never question what it is that you have joined.

I've tucked and tried to roll after that first spread-eagle spin but soon discovered the universal truth that bowling-ball-shaped objects bounce downhill much faster than do mannequin-shaped objects. In my current predicament, speed, obviously, was not my friend.

Some people," a valued supervisor had reassured me once as I bemoaned my lack of success with a patient during my training, "are better at being crazy than you are at being therapeutic.

If I don't try to move, I don't have to find out what parts don't work. Lauren Crowder to Alan Gregory

In Boulder, being of narrow mind was a much worse sin than appearing stupid.

Don't make the mistake of measuring God's love by the yardstick of your own life..." - Reverend Nathaniel Prior to Sam Purdy

Sometimes something happens even when nothing happens. Other times nothing happening is exactly what it sound like. I have a friend in the mental-health field who would tell me that at times it can be difficult to tell those two things apart.

Nor had either of us ever comprehended Boulderites' inclination to squander free weekends and precious holidays wandering off into the wilderness, pitching tents, squatting in the woods, and generally pretending they didn't have houses.

embrace of the kind of profound exuberance

Transference: treating, responding to, and/or having feelings about someone in the present as though they were someone important from the past.

I put air quotes around the word ethical. I regretted doing that. Instantly. I think that was what provoked him.

I fell in love with the Mediterranean philosophy of good wine, good food and family.