“It was amazing, really, just how much pain the human heart could hold.”

“I'd watch her, amazed at just how much a person could accomplish fueled by tea and regret.”

“How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn't a question of survival at all. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care.”

“its amazing how much a determined heart can accomplish.”

“He really really really shouldn't have done that. Amazing how much more obvious that became one second after it was too late.”

“Old pain was heavy in the heart, hard to move, and anyway, Dolores Umber kept a tight hold of her pains and grievances. She thought her pain was the last thing she really owned, the last thing that she could keep all to herself. Her very own thing, and she didn’t much care for the idea of someone else trying to take that away from her too.”