“You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.”

“The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures.”

“I am not functioning very well. Living with the knowledge that the baby is dead is painful. I feel so far away from you, God. I can only try to believe that you are sustaining me and guiding me through this. Please continue to stand by my side.”

“Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.”

“the pain of that first lost was still raw. You could deal with it, endure it, but never escape it.”

“There are odd things in life, and one of them is pain. The odd thing about pain is this: you can't avoid it. You just can't. Maybe if you lived in a sealed room your whole life you could, but that would be lonely and cause you emotional pain, and it might mean you've been kidnapped, so...just don't live sealed rooms. Also...you can't avoid pain.”