Sometimes, the pain almost became a reward. Became a game. A contest, to see whose will was the mightier.
Remember what you have. Magic. It’s lodged in you. Like a spiked arrow. It wounds you. Deeply. But it’s a strange sort of pain. Combined with bliss. Trust me. It’s all you’ll ever need. It’s everything.[to Ciri]
Pain is the most innate part of the human experience I can think of.
Pain is always a surprise. I try to avoid landmines. Avoid caring. I can even see it coming. But until it hits, you have no idea what pain is.
Pain is a loan shark. It leaves you with a debt that you can never pay back.[El dolor es un usurero. Contraés una deuda con él, no la pagás nunca más.]
Keeping it in, that is not brave. Feeling the pain, facing it, that takes courage.[to Jessica]
It’s not true what he told you all those years ago. That there are two kinds, useful and useless. There’s only one kind. Pain is pain.[about Francis]
I know what it feels like to be in pain and wanna hurt someone. But the person who gets hurt the most, it’s always yourself.[to Rory]
I grew up with God in my house. All He brought was more pain.
I can’t feel pain. No matter how hard I hit, where I hit, what I hit, I can’t feel pain.[to Chief]
Hypocrisy is a boil. Lancing a boil is never pleasant.
For some, the pleasure is in the pain.
