“There are some pains that run very deeply, as so that the strongest one accept them without being broken.”

“Everyone cries sometimes, Tory. There are some pains that run too deep for even the strongest to take without breaking. I don’t think any less of you for it. (Acheron)”

“One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.”

“We cannot love a person with an all accepting, transcending and encompassing love without being hurt somewhat, without being disappointed, without being failed of our expectations. We cannot love without being broken, yet we cannot continue in love without being stronger than our brokenness.”

“What I'd truly been avoiding was love, the strongest binding there is, and the pain that scrapes at your insides when the bond is forcefully broken.”

“It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to being with.”