“Joy came always after pain.”

“After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.”

“The Lord did not create suffering. Pain and death came into the world with the fall of man. But after man had chosen suffering in preference to the joys of union with God, the Lord turned suffering itself into a way by which man could come to the perfect knowledge of God.”

“...it's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told ...”

“In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.”

“For me," he said. It came out as a cross between a choked growl and a whimpher. It was shocked, and it was possessive. Full of pain, and laced with joy. "You were made for me.”