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Quotes About Pain

Some pain shouldn't be wished away so easily. It had to be dealt with, even embraced.
~ Rick Riordan
Nothing is more tragic than loving someone to the depths of your soul and knowing they cannot and will not ever love you back.
~ Rick Riordan
Humor was a good way to hide the pain.
~ Rick Riordan
If I'm dead, he murmured. Why does it hurt so much?
~ Rick Riordan
You promised you would protect her Nico said. He might as well have stabbed me with a rusty dagger.It would've hurt less than reminding me of my promise.
~ Rick Riordan
Wisdom's daughter walks alone—" "Ella!" Frank stood suddenly. "Maybe it's not the best time—" "The Mark of Athena burns through Rome," Ella continued, cupping her hands over her ears and raising her voice. "Twins snuff out the angel's breath, Who holds the key to endless death. Giants' bane stands gold and pale, Won with pain from a woven jail.
~ Rick Riordan
Pain is an interesting thing. You think you have reached your limit and you can't possibly feel more tortured. Then you discover there is still another level of agony. And another level after that.
~ Rick Riordan
Still hiding, Cupid said, smashing another skeleton to pieces. You do not have the strength. Nico, Jason managed to say, it's okay. I get it. Nico glanced over, pain and misery washing across his face. No you don't, he said. There's no way you can understand. And so you run away again, Cupid chided. From your friends, from yourself.
~ Rick Riordan
He was the class clown, the court jester, because he'd learn early that if you cracked jokes and pretended you weren't scared, you usually didn't get beat up. Even the baddest gangster kids would tolerate you, keep you around for laughs. Plus, humor was a good way to hide the pain
~ Rick Riordan
She'd felt more pain from Nico in their brief connection than she had from her entire legion during the battle against the giant Polybotes.
~ Rick Riordan
Nico's anger turned as cold and dark as his blade. He'd been morphed into a few plants himself, and he didn't appreciate it. He hated people like Bryce Lawrence, who inflicted pain just for fun.
~ Rick Riordan
Gods forbid if she ever broke up with him. She'd never be able to visit the sea again without remembering her broken heart. Annabeth about Percy
~ Rick Riordan
I was glad to be with her, but it also kind of hurt, and it hurt when I wasn't with her, too.
~ Rick Riordan
She'd expected some backlash; it happened every time she shared her strength. But she hadn't anticipated so much raw anguish from Nico di Angelo… If this was only a portion of Nico's pain… how could he bear it?
~ Rick Riordan
Child of Hades, what more could I do to you? You are perfect! So much sorrow and pain!' Nico gasped. His eyes flew open.
~ Rick Riordan
It's not mind-reading,' she said. 'Not even an empathy link. Just … a temporary wave of exhaustion. Primal emotions. Your pain washes over me. I take on some of your burden.' Nico's expression became guarded. He twisted the silver skull ring on his finger, the same way Reyna did with her silver ring when she was thinking. Sharing a habit with the son of Hades made her uneasy.
~ Rick Riordan
Some pain shouldn't be wished away so easily. It had to be dealt with, even embraced. Without the agony of the last few months, Piper never would have found her best friends, Hazel and Annabeth. She never would've discovered her own courage. She certainly wouldn't have had the guts to sing show tunes to the snake people under Athens.
~ Rick Riordan
The two of them looked so comfortable together it made Nico glad. But it also it caused an ache in his heart – a ghostly pain, like an old war wound throbbing in bad weather.
~ Rick Riordan
I am a seeker of knowledge!' Odin announced. 'This has always been true. I hung from the World Tree for nine days and nights, racked with pain, in order to discover the secret of runes. I stood in line in a blizzard for six days to discover the sorcery of the smartphone.' 'What?' I muttered. Blitzen coughed. 'Just roll with it.
~ Rick Riordan
Death is sometimes kinder than Love.
~ Rick Riordan
Imagine jumping into a pit of boiling acid. Now multiply that pain times fifty. -Percy
~ Rick Riordan
But too much love is poison, especially when that love is not returned.
~ Rick Riordan
That was one of the many reasons she loved him, even if he was an Olympian-sized pain in the podex
~ Rick Riordan
Mark my words, nothing smells worse than burned scorpion.
~ Rick Riordan