She had thought she'd already reached her capacity for pain and had no room inside her for more. But she remembered having told Archer once that you could not measure love on a scale of degrees, and now she understood that it was the same with pain. Pain might escalate upwards, and, just when you'd thought you'd reached your limit, begin to spread sideways, and spill out, and touch other people, and mix with their pain. And grow larger, but somehow less oppressive. She had thought herself trapped in a place outside the ordinary feeling lives of other people; she had not noticed how many other people were trapped in that place with her. Kristin Cashore
About This Quote

This quote from the novel, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, from Stieg Larsson, is about how love can be both a blessing and a curse. Love is a powerful emotion that can cause great happiness as well as pain. It can even destroy lives. In this case, it shows how love for another person can make all of your life’s problems seem to disappear.

You feel as though you have nothing to worry about and life is going to be a breeze. That is not always the case however. This quote also illustrates how love can escalate and spill out of control.

It can cause you to do things that you may have never done before just because of your love for that person. And sometimes that love can even change your personality and become destructive.

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