“Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.”
The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images of them, no physical tangibility whatsoever. They were pictures in the reader's head, constructs of imagination and ideas, given shape by the writer's work and skill and the reader's imagination. Parents, of a sort.
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“Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.”
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“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family.”
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