Ben Payne – Character Quotes

There is always a chance.

Being lost with you is better than being found and alone.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but if you want to hurt someone... way down deep, use words.

And every minute that passed would feel like an hour. Waiting for somebody does that. It turns minutes to hours, hours to days, and days to several lifetimes.

It's amazing what we value when we're at our lowest.

I learned how to run within myself, monitoring and gauging output and speed. Fear does that.

One of the things I've learned both in medicine and climbing mountains is that you attack one crisis at a time.

Laughter can heal the hurt places.

Putting one foot in front of the other.

I have three addictions. Running. Mountains. And good hot coffee. And not necessarily in that order.

She used humor to ward off the pain. I'd seen other people do it. Usually something in their past had emotionally wounded them, and so they used humor or sarcasm to mask it. Take their mind off it.

If ever an animal had a Napoleon complex, it's him. He's got the attitude of an angry bullmastiff shoved into a package the size of a loaf of bread. He's the poster dog for 'it's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.

Darkness does that. It speaks fears that, left alone, remain unspoken, yet real.

This... living with a broken heart is living half dead, and that doesn’t mean you’re half alive. It means you’re half dead. And... that’s no way to live.

We have to look at very bad situations and find ways to make them better. Every day is a chess match. Us against evil. Most days we win. Some days we don't. And we do all of this because of one word. Hope. It circulates in our veins. It's what fuels us.

Like a word you say over and over until you're only hearing what it sounds like and you've forgotten what it means.