“The more pain I train myself to stand, the more I learn. You are afraid of pain now, Unk, but you won't learn anything if you don't invite the pain. And the more you learn, the gladder you will be to stand the pain.”
“The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.”
“I don't need more pain in my life. Why did I invite it in? Do I have to feel pain to believe I feel anything at all?”
“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.”
“Before this trip and all that she'd learned about the three of them, she would have gotten angry or changed the subject. Anything to obscure the pain she felt. Now she knew better. You carried your pain with you in life. There was no outrunning it.”
“Don't take my pain away, leave my pain right there, you could even put more pain inside my pain and it wouldn't bother me.”