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"What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn't enough. I had a hole in me, and everything I took for granted slipped through it like sand.I felt like I had swallowed yeast, like whatever evil was festering inside me had doubled in size."
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"Because of pain you feel more and so you live more."
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"You are never more alive than when you are enraptured by pain."
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"Today I was rejected......I hate being rejected... SAYYYYYYYYYY MY FUCKING NAME "Bill"."
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"There's wall of agony between dreams and reality."
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"Maybe you receive pain selfishly - thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant, both victim and aggressor."
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"What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?"
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"Pain is awesome I like it, to see myself scared is awesome to see how people get killed just makes me happy."
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"Crossing the Rubicon of absolute pain is the only journey of purpose and meaning in life."
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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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"Don't lick your wounds unless you care to taste the sting a second time."
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"I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself, maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it."
Identity
"Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life."
Parenting
"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."
Family
"Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board."
Spiritual
"Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut."
Life
"There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover."
Life
"When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires."
Family
"It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it."
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"She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong."
Love
"Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child."
Parenting
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