“I would rather remember even if sometimes it can be very painful.”

“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

“Sometimes I even cut myself to see how much it bleeds, it's like adrenaline: The pain is such a sudden rush for me!”

“Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little, if thou only circumscribest it, and chidest thy mind, if it is unable to hold out against even this.”

“Love's scary, and sometimes it's transient. But it's worth the risks and the nerves. It's even worth the pain.”

“For how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.”

“It is sometimes hard even for biologists to remember that sex is merely a genetic joint venture.”

“Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’
‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.”

“You can never escape me. Bullets don't harm me. Nothing harms me. But I know pain. I KNOW pain. Sometimes I share it. With someone like you.”

“Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.”