• When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

    Yann Martel: When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
    Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt