“pain always feels brand new no matter how much experience you've had with it!”

“it could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, lovin you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars, tell me who i have to be, to get some reciprocity..”

“those who fail to plan, plan to fail!”

“Men come and go but bills are forever.”

“I never traded my humanity for my long life, Doctor. I've always remembered my roots....You worked so hard to be like your Elder master that you've forgotten what it is like to feel human - to be human. And we humans...have the capacity to feel another creature's pain. It is what lifted humani above the Elders, it is what made them great.”

“...your pain brand new no matter how long it lasts which now means years...”

“Life itself is too painful to bear, Madeline had said. Sometimes, suffering feels like an escape.”