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“Problem is, though, sooner or later, physical pain, it's... it's manageable. See, real pain is emotional pain. That is the kind of pain that lasts.”
“Admitting pain humbles us to the reality of our personal histories and our present conditions. We no longer have to pretend we are something that we are not.”
“The world laughed at any attempts we made to exist in it without pain.”
“Freedom is self liberation and liberation of people from any suffering.”
“Friendship's like a relationship between friends.”
“He's on the school bus and Uncle Wade is standing outside the window. The bus hasn't pulled out yet and Uncle Wade is punching the air and ducking his head and giving him a thumbs up sign and then ...”
“I think she must have lived where all the sad poets live, in that secret place where everything hurts all the time.”
“Emotional fetters may hurt but they lead us to profound lessons of life.”
“If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain in time you will move through your pain.”
“Everyone keeps telling me that time heals all wounds, but no one can tell me what Im supposed to do right now. Right now I cant sleep. Its right now that I cant eat. Right now I still hear his voic...”
“When on an emotional roller-coaster, take the leap of faith ...”
“...she imagines her body curled in the narrow monk's bed, knees to chin, her own irrefutable geography, but she sees the blood of her futile heart seeping out over her chest and arms and legs, floo...”
“When you sit alone and think out your thoughts then that is your loudest cry!”
“I wish I could take my brain and put it inside your head, Winslow said. Just for a moment. Then youd know what all I cant find how to say.”
“True sorrows do not pass like clouds or inclement weather...Sorrows are absorbed over time, and you reshape yourself around them. How you absorb them makes you what you are for good or ill. I think...”
“She had not had the relief of amnesia. She had suffered longer, and she had suffered more. Each second was agony in the first weeks. She was like an amputee in the days before anesthesia, half craz...”
“Is the love you have for me, and the feelings I have for you forever parallel, with no chance of intersecting?”
“You really need stitches," she tells me."Or you're going to have a scar." I try not to laugh. Stitches aren't going to help. They fix skin, cuts, wounds, heal stuff on the outside. Everything broke...”
“Sadness, it was such an arresting emotion. You could almost convince yourself of the rhyme and reason of heartbreak.”
“Most of the pain we feel is nothing more than a story that needs telling.”
