“what is the worst pain? To me, it's always the pain that is present.”

“It's not easy to find a topic. Talking of home is painful. Talking of the present unbearable.”

“I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me."His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.”

“Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams.”

“The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face.”

“Not only does he hate me, and want to kill me, he no longer believes I'm human. It was less painful being strangled.”

“Beauty that arose out of pain.”