“You can love something without loving everything about it. You don't have to feel embarrassed about not being proud. That applies to hockey, but it also applies to friends.”

“The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.”

“Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.”

“The very worst events in life have that effect on a family: we always remember, more sharply than anything else, the last happy moments before everything fell apart.”

“Never trust people who don't have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.”

“What is a community? It is the sum total of our choices.”

“The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.”

“What's the point of obsessing over cholesterol or bike helmets or even cigarettes when the biggest threats to our children are being released back into society every day? Yes, maybe 'some' of them ...”

“greater sexual freedom expands the grey area between consensual sex and rape”