“Truly there are different kinds of pain. But the most agonizing is the pain of regret, for which there is no lasting relief and no remedy.”
“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”
“The pain of dying will surely be nothing, for the pain of love is so much stronger and agonizing.”
“Making decisions was the painful part for me, the part I agonized over. But once the decision was made, I simply followed through—usually with relief that the choice was made. Sometimes the relief was tainted by despair, like my decision to come to Forks. But it was still better than wrestling with the alternatives.”
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
“The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of regret.”