“Every transgression is a game, every grief easy to bear compared with having discovered beauty; it was at once the crime that could never be atoned and the hurt that could never be assuaged, the tear that could never be dried.”

“I had never believed I had a soul until then, when it laid bare a hurt more deep than any part of me could bear.”

“Beautiful I would never be. Striking, that I could manage.”

“I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.”

“At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did bear it. The question remains: how?”

“The only thing for it is to use men for sex and never let any of them get so close they could hurt you.”

“Not the labors of my hands
Can fulfill thy Law's demands:
Could my zeal no respite know,
Could my tears forever flow,
All for Sin could not atone:
Thou must save, and Thou alone!”

“Don't look behind
'Cause a tear that never dries
Can only make you blind.”

“I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.”

“Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.”