quotes by Keith Ablow

"Relationships are never chance events."
— Keith Ablow (Denial)

"We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers, strokes, hatred, even war."
— Keith Ablow (Denial)

"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."
— Keith Ablow (Denial)

"The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty."
— Keith Ablow (Murder Suicide: A Novel)

"A jealous husband is an ugly thing."
— Keith Ablow (Murder Suicide: A Novel)

"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."
— Keith Ablow (Murder Suicide: A Novel)

"Sometimes when you push someone, you find out who that person really is."
— Keith Ablow (Murder Suicide: A Novel)

"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."
— Keith Ablow (Murder Suicide: A Novel)

"What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?"
— Keith Ablow (Murder Suicide: A Novel)

"I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow."
— Keith Ablow (Denial)

"People react predictably, especially when they don't have time to think."
— Keith Ablow (Denial)

"God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces."
— Keith Ablow (Denial)

"'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.'"
— Keith Ablow (Denial)

"People blush when one of their core truths is revealed."
— Keith Ablow (Murder Suicide: A Novel)

"The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut."
— Keith Ablow (Murder Suicide: A Novel)

"Like most of the connections that explain the pain in our hearts, he couldn't bring it to mind. He couldn't see the truth because it was too big and it was right in front of him."
— Keith Ablow (Murder Suicide: A Novel)

"The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who."
— Keith Ablow (Murder Suicide: A Novel)

"Nothing overdone, nothing racy, which made her all the more alluring."
— Keith Ablow (Murder Suicide: A Novel)

"What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?"
— Keith Ablow (Murder Suicide: A Novel)

"When people can do something simple to avoid conflict--say, hit a button or unlock a latch--they'll generally do it."
— Keith Ablow (Murder Suicide: A Novel)

"Deep down, everyone wants the truth."
— Keith Ablow (Murder Suicide: A Novel)

"But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly."
— Keith Ablow (Denial)

"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."
— Keith Ablow (Denial)

"The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain."
— Keith Ablow (Denial)

"Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it."
— Keith Ablow (Denial)

"'As if you don’t already know all this, men who beat up on women are different than the rest of us. Okay? They’re unhinged. Out there. Without feelings. And anyone arrogant enough to violate an order of the court, when it could get him a year or more in jail, is different, too. He doesn’t get the idea of boundaries – like, where his life stops and other people’s start.' He let his hands settle back to his coffee cup.

'If you or I were the subject of a restraining order, we’d be twenty miles from ground zero at all times. We’re not gonna screw with the justice system once it buries its teeth in us.' He paused, sipped his coffee."
— Keith Ablow

"'But that's the hardest part of healing.'
'What?'
'Realizing there's no one to hate.'"
— Keith Ablow (Denial)

"...Loving anyone, anywhere, at any time, leaves you infinitely vulnerable at every single moment."
— Keith Ablow