“someone who could love so hard and so well could also hate, and hurt, as deeply”

“I couldn't hear his voice over the hammer of my heart. And I told myself over and over I should have known that someone who could love so hard and so well could also hate, and hurt, as deeply.”

“And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.”

“To love someone so deeply means also that it will hurt a thousand times more when he disappoints or leaves you”

“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.”

“So you’ll just kill anyone who frightens you. Who could hurt you.”“Well…yes.”