Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

My home is not a place, it is people.

Our children change us…whether they live or not.