“More than most, I know the pain of surviving.”

“You must understand the pain and grief of losing someone is nothing more than a function of survival.”

“I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult.”

“Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.”

“Sometimes it’s more painful to know the truth than not to know it.” -Han Solo”

“There should be more to love," said the earth, "than 'it did not kill me.' More than 'I survived it.”