“You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.”
“I was terribly, painfully present in the world, and so far removed from it.”
“False hope is a terrible thing, if its the only thing keeping you alive you'll be dead by dawn.”
“Love is a beautiful but terrible thing," he said. "You have to be careful with it. It can destroy you.”
“They are not sorrows, so much as terrible things.”
“Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen?”