“Who taught you all this, doctor?"The reply came promptly:"Suffering.”

“Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.”

“That alone would be Eddie's triumph in all this; that she had taught the kelpie suffering.”

“a technician who uses the term “glitch” is like aDoctor who tells you you’re suffering from a “thingy,” except the doctor won’t tell you to go home and try turning yourself on and off again.”

“What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.”

“It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this woman in bitterness and hate, and I came back to her now with no other emotion than a sort of ruth for her great sufferings, and strong yearning to forget and forgive all injuries - to be reconciled and clasp hands in amity.”