“..:Hearts all wounded and not enough bandaids… Lots of pain and lonelyness… Yet, Your very Presence and peace, helps us forget of all the aching and lonelyness. It reminds us that You are always there with us. Your very presence, the source of our lives:..”
“If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it—to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger. But Ansel let her pain become hate, and let it consume her until she became something else entirely—a person I don’t think she ever wished to be”
“Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure - you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you.”
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
“You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.”