Pain

"Love, the emotion that should elicit healing, was in fact the most painful emotion of them all. It crept in when you didn’t want it. Made itself at home, terrorizing your hormones with confusion. It made you more susceptible to pain, it weakened your resolve while simultaneously making you frantic with need. And it hurt. Not just mentally, but physically."

"Cold has its own taste. It tastes of a bitten tongue. It coils around you, a living thing, a beast that means to kill you, not with wrath, not with tooth nor claw, but with the mercy of surrender, with the kindness of letting you go gentle into the long night after such a burden of pain and misery."

"Pain, sometimes, is like Love. It grows, until it becomes your Life."

"It takes courage to let go of the past and all the mechanisms you have put in place, in order to ease your pain, regret and fear through avoiding responsibility for it."

"Love never betrays. People do."

"Do the roots reveal everything to the branches, or do they keep what is painful to themselves?"

"I feel like when I give trust that isn't earned, I receive hurt that isn't deserved."

"Ileni swallowed hard. "Yes," she said. "I am. But it's all going to be the same, for a very long time. The sorcerers will have all the power, and the assassins will eventually regather and start attacking again... and I haven't made any difference at all."Well," Evin said, "I think you've made quite a bit of difference to the people whose lives you saved. Speaking as one of them."She stepped away from the edge, closer to him. "Do you regret it" he asked evenly. His face was half-shadowed, but his eyes were bright and piercing. Not wide with pain and devoid of hope. She felt again his hand, limp and helpless in hers. Felt it tighten as Sorin plummeted past the gray rock. "No," she said. And for at least that moment, it was entirely true."

"If God really valued loyalty, He would have blessed every single believer before He even considered blessing a single nonbeliever."

"Spread love, joy and compassion because the world needs it, for hatred and pain need no escort; they know how to survive without it."

"Some people are in misery of carrying the entire world’s pain on their shoulders. They are called writers."

"The Lord healed all our wounds."

"We need to develop new strategies overcome every challenge."

"How much easier life was once you learned how to lie. I had gotten into trouble by speaking out of turn, arguing and answering back so many times. Not anymore. Now I would do what I wanted, and no one would stop me."

"There is a little furnace within every heart that burns pain. It is formed by a masonry of scars as tick by tick the tireless mechanics of life strip the innocence bestowed upon us at birth. There are some in whom life builds the furnace small and controllable, a passionate heat to burn off the losses, the harsh words and petty disappointments, leaving us cleaner for it. There are others. There are those whose innocence is assaulted early and with such brutality, that it goes beyond all the boundaries of deities and angels to stray into the world of unfettered evil. They build their furnaces differently."

"With positive attitude and persistent endurance, you can overcome any challenge."

"Before hurting others, feel the pain you will inflict on others."

"When sorrow's cup is filled up to the brim,the slightest touch of memory can cause tears to spill again."

"Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious."

"I surmise that later generations will likely scoff at the means by which we are currently addressing pain as well."