Quotes About Pain

She glanced down the hallway, but Angie didn't want to go into the bedrooms. She didn't want to see where Michael screwed his wife, know that this was the place where he probably beat Gina. Had

No one saw it at the time, but her addiction had never been about the high, it has been about the escape. She had been actively seeking ways to destroy herself.

Tears had rolled down his cheeks, one long drip after another, like condensation on the side of a glass.

Claire knew full well from the videos that there were things a man could do to a woman that didn't kill her, but made her wish she was dead.

She had felt this intense disembodiment for the last four days, really from the moment the Snake Man had told them to turn around. And then the police, the undertaker, asking if she wanted to see the body one last time and Claire blanching at the word body and sobbing like a child because she had spent every single second since they had taken Paul from her arms trying to remove the image of her lifeless, murdered husband from her mind.

He fell into the empty seat at the back of the bus, half-wishing the lightning zigzagging out of the sky would come through the window and hit him right in the head.

out by opioids or willful denial. It was like her emotional maturation had stopped the second she'd swallowed that first Oxycontin.

My father is dead. My husband left me. The last few days have been the shittiest days I've had since you were shot and Mama died. I'm sorry I'm not happy and peppy for you, but my give-a-fuck is broken .

He beat the shit out of you. That's not love.

You can't throw a brick without hitting a heroin addict these days." She sighed. "If only we had more bricks.

The most expensive thing she had ever put on her face was a New York strip after a perp had punched her in the eye.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

One of my wisdom teeth is playing up. My dentist said it is known to happen with some people when they're stressed. My teeth seem to know I'm stressed before I do. Maybe that's why they're called wisdom teeth.

Memories leave a light in the eyes, just as plain as scars.

Scars heal," Sylvie said. "Even the worst ones.

How quickly life could dissolve into its more ugly elements.

but her mother's death had revealed that there was no metaphor too ostentatious for grief. It was a terrible thing and demanded embellishment.

Jennifer had never liked the pain of remembering what had happened, but for Theo it was the pain that kept Laura alive in his memory. He was afraid that if it ever began to heal she would disappear.

This was love. It didn't come free, you paid in pain. Your own. But then nobody ever said love was easy. Well, they did, but they were idiots.

Juliet sighed and wondered if one day she would think herself to death. Was that possible? And would it be painful?

but her mother's death had revealed that there was no metaphor too ostentatious for grief. It was a terrible thing and demanded embellishment.

And I can't cry, I don't even want to cry. My tears would never do justice to this loss.

Don't seek out elaborate metaphors," her English teacher had said of her school essays, but her mother's death had revealed that there was no metaphor too ostentatious for grief. It was a terrible thing and demanded embellishment.

Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.