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“Without a word or hesitation, Pain took the mop from Nick. Suffering moved to pick up glass."Wow. Where have you two been all my life?"Pain quirked and eyebrow as he mopped the floor."Walking hand ...”
“You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things”
“There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or translate my impulses into words, I am betraying the...”
“But for pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space; the sense also of extreme fixity in pas...”
“It was the sheer variety of the pain that stopped me from crying out. It came from so many places, spoke so many languages, wore so many dazzling varieties of ethnic costume, that for a full fiftee...”
“The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn’t look too closely at another person’s pain.”
“She was battered and beaten up, and not smiling this time. Liesel could see it on her face. Blood leaked from her nose and licked at her lips. Her eyes had blackened. Cuts had opened up and a serie...”
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.Much of your pain is se...”
“So it comes to this: I would have lost her either way. If Cole hadn't reinfected her, I would have lost her in the hospital bed. And now Cole's wolf tozin pumps through her veins, and I lose her to...”
“The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redundant. No one knows there is pain the size of thi...”
“If little labour, little are our gains:Man's fortunes are according to his pains.”
“Tessa distinguished absolutely between pain observed and pain shared. Pain observed is journalistic pain. It’s diplomatic pain. It’s television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set...”
“The excess of pleasure is pain”
“Leave off sniffing the carcass of your old life-do you enjoy unending pain? There is no shame in walking away from bones. Nor is there any special wisdom in injuring oneself over and over. What is ...”
“He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.”
“The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the painin the world had found a voice”
“I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me.”
“Pain is never added to pain. It multiplies.”
“The physical shock took away the pain of being.”
“You have to have the power to employ pain, to repent, to be illuminated, you must have the opportunity and even the time.”
