“Was that the point of suffering: to understand, in some way, what you still had? To clarify it, to rip the stars from the sky and hold them in the hand like diamonds‒to darken all the rest but the most glittering, glad memories? Was that the way to live a sunny life?” LifeHappinessSufferingMemories Book:The Unfinished World and Other Stories Source: The Unfinished World and Other Stories
“Maybe then he would have understood her better, understood how suffering steals the aptitude for happiness from you. Maybe he would have been okay with her melancholy then.” PainHappinessSufferingDepressionMelancholyNumbness Book:And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges Source: And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges