“Time is a terrible thing because it can erase both joys and pains.”
“All the logic in the world could not blunt the pain. Logic could not blunt her terrible sense of personal failure. Only time would do those things, and time would do an imperfect job.”
“The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.”
“For the first time, vague doubts assaulted me, the shattering suspicion that for all pleasure and joy in life we had to pay ... I repel fear. If I had to pay I would pay, after all, the memory of ecstasy while pungisse its pain could never be erased.”
“I thought how that was wrong and terrible and beautiful all at the same time.”