“...I wondered why so much had been written about love's pain and so little about the glorious relief of being delivered from love's pain.”

“And Nurd, who had never had a mother and father, and who had never loved or been loved, marvelled at the ways in which feeling so wonderful could also leave one open to so much pain. In a strange way, he envied Samuel even that. He wanted to care about someone so much that it could hurt.”

“The hardest thing about being a grown up is realizing there are no magic formulas to release the ones we love from pain. Maybe that's why I enjoy computer games so much; you get to be God.”

“So far as love or affection is concerned, psychologists have failed in their mission. The little we know about love does not transcend simple observation, and the little we write about it has been written better by poets and novelists.”

“She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.”

“The pain of dying will surely be nothing, for the pain of love is so much stronger and agonizing.”