I love this...

...and I'm not posting much of value right now anyway, y'know?  So why not...

(from an NPR interview)

We do pass on pain to the people around us, but I think another way of looking at that is that the people who hurt us are rarely evil. Most people are trying their best with the pain that they've been given.

                                                                      -- Rowan Hisayo Buchanan