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John Green

"That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt."

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Asa Don Brown

"What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?"

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"Tavi spent an eternity in misery, longing for death to bring sweet release from the unrelenting torment. The others gathered at the side of his bunk on the ship, keeping a deathwatch over him."I don't see what all the drama is about," Demos said, his quiet voice filled with habitual disinterst. "He's seasick. It will pass."~Captain's Fury."

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Asa Don Brown

"Don't lick your wounds unless you care to taste the sting a second time."

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"Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain . . . pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy."

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Asa Don Brown

"Given a choice, I would never want a life totally devoid of pain, but life is meaningless without some sadness."

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"Only pain can define the meaning of tears."

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Asa Don Brown

"How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding."

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Asa Don Brown

"Some pain has no relief,it can only be sealed You can grasp the wound to feel the scar unhealed."

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Asa Don Brown

"Sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me ."

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"If your tears have lost the ability to hide your pain... why shedding them?"

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"I am trying to find ways to live honestly and hopefully in the world without ignoring or denying the universe s cold and painful indifference to us."
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"It is so hard to leave-until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."
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"I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr."
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"I would not be dying if it were not for her. I would have stayed home, as I have always stayed home, and I would have been safe, and I would have done the one thing I have always wanted to do, which is to grow up."
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"Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust."
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"I'm not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore."
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"And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart."
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"But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended."
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