Believe-like-a-child Quote by Paige Dearth

“It seemed to her that almost any pain was sympathetic to her loss and she inserted herself immediately into the concept of fantastic suffering.”

— Louise Erdrich

“I understood that I was suffering because I couldn't make anyone else around me feel better.”

— Muriel Barbery

“She understood suffering and she knew it was a place she could not follow, not unless she wanted to drown too.”

— Leigh Bardugo

“If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain gained meaning…

— Diane Wood Middlebrook

“Somehow, turning to God and trusting him with the mysteries of suffering is the answer to the problem of suffering.”

— Edward T. Welch

“She must ask; she must heal, and if she couldn’t heal, she must suffer, but if there was a chance, she must take it.”

— Kellyn Roth

“God gave you life to live happily not to suffer heavily. I felt sufferment.”

— Nadair Desmar

“He would welcome the opportunity to offer his suffering up to God. Me, I could not help but think that there was more than…

— Jacqueline Carey

“And maybe things like this really did get better of their own accord, if you gave them time; maybe all you could ever do,…

— Richard Yates

“I knew then why I had to suffer. The older we get, the more reasons God gives us to seek His comfort. In the…

— Kate McGahan

“She had no God to plead to for mercy or luck. It would be true to say she depended instead on human kindness and…

— Deborah Levy

“Somehow, maybe I could heal her. Even as I thought it, I knew it was delusional. A person needed to want to get better,…

— Leila DeSint