"How do you know it will hurt?" Zacharias asked him. "If you're talking about the sex... well yeah. It does, a bit. At first. The first time. But then it doesn't." He shrugged. It was hard to explain really, until you were there in the moment, and you could see how worth the pain was.
"If you're talking about a less tangible sort of hurt.. you don't know that. Relationships can, yes. But they don't, always. Are you going to run away from everything on the off chance that it might be bad? Because you'll miss out on all the good too."