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“Pain is the only eyewitness to the fact that we're alive. Everything else can be a dream, a fantasy, an invention, a fiction. Pain, no.”

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Book:Wordless: Autobiography of a Ghost

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“There is always something to be made of pain. Your mother knits. She turns out scarves in every shade of red. They were for Christmas, and they kept you warm while she married over and over, taking you along. How could it work, when all those years she stored her widowed heart as though the dead come back.”

Pain Death Poetry Loss Grief Poem Mourning Widows Knitting Widowhood

Book:The House on Marshland

Source: The House on Marshland

“This battered person in the mirror was me. "I’m not ashamed. I didn’t cause this. I didn’t bring it on myself. I deserve better than this. I’m worth more than this."..”

Pain Survival Domestic Violence

Book:The Daymakers

Source: The Daymakers

“What business had I to think of one that never thought of me?”

Love Romance Thoughts Agnes Grey

Book:Agnes Grey

Source: Agnes Grey

“[E]veryone in life has to accept a certain amount of pain [...].”

Life Pain

Book:The Ghostwriter

Source: The Ghostwriter

“Regret is a strange animal, son. It makes you create alternate realities inside your head with hindsight as your guide. You long for those imaginary outcomes until it's a sickness. But there's also another side to regret. Remembering its pain made me love your gramma more fully, embrace every moment with your dad and with you. Take nothing for granted. Because I knew how much it cost to get it wrong.”

Pain Regret Imagery Hindsight Alternate Realities For Granted

Author:Amanda Cox

“We are told a man must master his emotions, but a heart is not meant for chains. To weep when broken is not a sign of fragility, but an act of nature... the rain that follows the heat of pain. It is not a sign of weakness, but the first step in healing. We must unchain our grief, for the soul cannot heal what it refuses to release.”

Pain Healing Tears Emotions Weeping

Author:Kelly Iyogun

“Is it worse when they don't believe you? Or is it worse when they believe you, but it doesn't matter?”

Pain Misogyny Rape Rape Culture

Book:Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation

Source: Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation

“There's love at the heart of his anger and pain, or he wouldn't feel either.”

Love Pain Anger

Book:A Steeping of Blood

Source: A Steeping of Blood

“She clutched her anger as if it was a rope and she was hanging on for dear life. Better anger than sorrow. Better rage than pain. Better vengeance than anguish.”

Pain Sorrow Anger Rage Anguish Vengeance

Book:A Steeping of Blood

Source: A Steeping of Blood

“All she had to do was die, and with death would come the end of the pain, but they would have to live with the memory of it. Of her.”

Love Pain Death Loss Grief Memory Mortality Survivors Aftermath Emotional Burden

Book:For Whom the Belle Tolls

Source: For Whom the Belle Tolls

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