Jonah

“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
― William Goldman, Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery

“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman