“We all know pain, Nate said. It becomes a part of us But it doesn't define us.”

“No matter how bleak and black her existence became, the familiar sight of the moon restored something within her, small as it waslike tiny fluttering wings of flame beating back the darkness.”

“It was more real than anything shed ever imagined, and she clung to that in the same way that the sky clung to the earth.”

“It was more real than anything she’d ever imagined, and she clung to that in the same way that the sky clung to the earth.”

“Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It ...”

“In pleasant peace and security How suddenly the soul in a man begins to die He shall look up above the stalled oxen Envying the cruel falcon, And dig under the straw for a stone To bruise himself on.”

“It is amazing, though, what pains your subconscious will undergo in achieve sustainable peace.”