“And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their baptism.”

“And there are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue;”

“There is no necessity for pain-why, then, is the worst pain reserved for those who will not accept its necessity?”

“Tessa distinguished absolutely between pain observed and pain shared. Pain observed is journalistic pain. It’s diplomatic pain. It’s television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set. Those who watch suffering and do nothing about it, in her book, were little better than those who inflicted it. They were the bad Samaritans.”

“It is a long Baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion and in pain than to live untouched. Yet how will you sustain?”

“Perfectionists are people who take great pains and give them to other people”