“I think of pain differently now. There is pain that hurts, pain that is so bad you can no longer feel it. Your body just says 'hold on'.”

“Why is it that you can bear pain, but someone's kindness makes you cry?”

“I think my body knew before my mind did. Or maybe I just refused to listen to what I knew.”

“You get through bad things - I know, enough bad things have happened to me already. But I don't think getting through one bad time makes it any easier to deal with the next one. If anything, it's worse, because there is happiness to remember.”

“They'd manage. Her ghost from the future had said so. He'd been right about the bad coming. Now she had to trust good would come as well.”

“Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!”

“You're a heroin Flinty McAlpine. I reckon you can do anything you set your mind to.”