“I can do pain. Thats the easy part of life. Its everything else, happiness, laughter, love, thats fucking complicated.”

“Life is full of luck, like getting dealt a good hand, or simply by being in the right place at the right time. Some people get luck handed to them, a second chance, a save. It can happen heroically...”

“I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind.”

“I don't believe that. I don't believe that there are bad things about you. Only things that you think are bad.”

“There are no accusations with writing, no judgment, no shame, only freedom.”

“You really need stitches," she tells me."Or you're going to have a scar." I try not to laugh. Stitches aren't going to help. They fix skin, cuts, wounds, heal stuff on the outside. Everything broke...”

“I love nature, I just don't want to get any of it on me.”

“The verse is supposed to get you hard so the chorus can suck you off.”

“It's a dirty way to fight, but I'm late for lunch."- Valek to Yelena”

“Problem is, though, sooner or later, physical pain, it's... it's manageable. See, real pain is emotional pain. That is the kind of pain that lasts.”

“Admitting pain humbles us to the reality of our personal histories and our present conditions. We no longer have to pretend we are something that we are not.”

“The world laughed at any attempts we made to exist in it without pain.”

“We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma ...”

“If only it were possible to love without injury fidelity isnt enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body...”

“She looks at the swings, and I can see shes imagining what theyd look like if the kids werent there. The guilt of this holds her down momentarily. It appears to be there constantly. Never far away,...”