Sublime

She intuited that there was some internal struggle inside John, that there were feelings he was hiding from, which he had built moats and fortresses to keep away.

We build character through our actions and our motivations. Good choices are those that rest on the foundation of good character.

He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster,

“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they are finished.”

He said that when you first meet him, you’re meeting his bodyguard. I wrote it down and later taped it to my bathroom mirror, where all truth resides at least briefly. His bodyguard is smart and charming, and keeps people out. Deep inside, his true self is very human, which is to say beautiful and kind of a mess—needy, insecure, judgmental, like mo