Pain Avoidance Quotes

“[Cole Doherty] 'You're asking the wrong person. I don't believe unconditional love is a human emotion.'

'Really?' June [Briscoe] tends to believe this, too, but she's never said it out loud.

'Strongest drive in any mammal, and I limit it to mammals just because they're my area of specialized knowledge, is to avoid pain. It takes a lot to overcome that. But people, and animals, they do it all the time. They put themselves in mortal danger to save their children. But emotional pain is different. If your love is getting pushed back at you, that unconditional river of it, you can avoid the pain so easily by draining out the water.”
― Stacey Swann, Olympus, Texas