“He rises off the bed and tries to speak, but cannot stop the pain in his throat, and cannot articulate a word, capable only of an animal sound, a strangulated wheeze that shocks him deeply, enraging him, this sudden loss of the faculty of speech that feels somehow bestial and low.”
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“You have to feel. Otherwise you end up like the piano teacher.”
“The deepest pain I ever felt was denying my own feelings to make everyone else comfortable.”
“I cut all my words out. My heart was too full of them.”
“Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.”
“That is the worst thing about despair: it is not constant, any more than love is.”