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“He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.”
“It is when suffering finds a voice andsets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.”
“There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry,' said Dumbledore's voice. 'On the contrary... the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.”
“The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body.”
“Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the crickets chirping in the yard. And I could almost feel the emptine...”
“So instead of ignoring the pain, I called out to it, reaching for more. Pain is part of who I am. Its the defining characteristic of a Shifters transformation. Pain is what I suffer from my enemies...”
“We live in one of the few epochs of humanity where life isn't just a painful cycle of toil, fatigue, and collapse. Now pleasure gyrates us through those stages.”
“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...”
“Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenl...”
“[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.”
“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...”
“George!' [Horace] said, the relief evident in his voice. 'Are you all right?''No! I am not!' George replied with considerable spirit. 'I have a whacking great arrow stuck through my arm and it hurt...”
“Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.”
“How many memories can come through at once before they are just jumbled words and faces mixed together by years of pain?”
“I wonder if pain comes from surrendering or resisting?”
“I heard the silence pouring from them. The audience held themselves quiet, tense, and tight, as if the song had burned them worse than flame.Each person held their wounded selves closely, clutching...”
“Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain.”
“Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth.”
“...when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our bodies. Decisions of the flesh. We forget to learn from pleasure as well as pain.”
“She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up into the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke sile...”
