“See, that’s the difference,” Mauvin said. “I suffer a loss and people console me. Royce suffers a loss and whole towns evacuate.”
“Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?”
“People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.”
“The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered more. Pain and loss, like love and joy, are unique and personal; they cannot be modified by comparison to others. ”
“Price of peace could only be valued by people who had suffered loss in the war.”
“He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.”