“Pain don't hurt.”

“There's just something about dance ... It's like a primal thing in all of us.”

“The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.”

“When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... it's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.”

“Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?”

“Grenouille’s mother, however, perceived the odor neither of the fish nor of the corpses, for her sense of smell had been utterly dulled, besides which her belly hurt, and the pain deadened all susceptibility of sensate impressions.”

“And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.”