“Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.”
“As if one's capacity for pain had anything to do with life's apportionment of agonies, Mr. Kimmelbrod thought. Such idiocy.”
“It would take less than a second for you to die. But that's quite long enough to be in mortal agony, don't you think?”
“Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain.”
“His safety was more important than anything to me. Even if he would never know enough to understand that.”
“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”