"Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder."

Pain, Emotion, Metaphor, Struggle

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"Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder."

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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."

Jim Butcher, American Author

Pain, Illness, Suffering, Humor

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

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Pain, Regret, Wisdom, Truth

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

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Pain, Truth, Power, Today, Inspirational

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

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Pain, Sadness, Meaning, Life

"Only pain can define the meaning of tears."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Pain, Tears, Meaning, Emotion

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

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Pain, Struggle, Identity, Self

"Of course, being open and vulnerable will lead us to, sometimes, experience pain. But what is pain? It is simply a feeling. It is not forever. If you get pain from some person or thing too many times, you can always walk away. To risk a lifetime without pleasure simply to avoid pain is ludicrous."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

Pain, Pleasure, Feeling, Choice

"The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people."

John Green, American Author

Pain, Feeling, Truth, Life

"Ah, what broken creatures we are, and how we endure."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Pain, Suffering, Endurance, Healing

"As I lifted the ash dagger, something inside me fractured so completely that there would be no hope of ever repairing it."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

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"Maybe it wasn't a good idea to rank the people in your life. That's not how the heart worked. The heart didn't make lists."

Equality

"I always thought of men as being hard-maybe because I was hard. But there was a softness in Tom that betrayed his large masculine hands and his deep baritone voice. He knew something about love that I didn't. I don't know where he'd learned it, but it wasn't something you got from a book, not something you could learn in an online class, not something you could borrow. Maybe it was something you were born with. Some people knew how to love and some people didn't. Tom was the former. I was the latter. I didn't know which one of us had it worse."

Sensitivity

"Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe."

Nostalgia

"Do you think it will always be this way?'What?'I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?I wanted to tell him that the world would never belong to us. 'I don't know, I said. 'Tomorrow."

Youth

"And prayer? How could you pray to a God you wanted to hit?"

Faith

"You can't expect to go both ways when you're driving on a one-way street."

Direction

"I wished it was raining,' he said.'I don't need the rain,' I said. 'I need you."

Longing

"Words exist only in theory. And then one ordinary day you run into a word that exists only in theory. And you meet it face to face. And then that word becomes someone you know. That word becomes someone you hate. And you take that word with you wherever you go. And you can't pretend it isn't there."

Language

"I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be."

Identity

"I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility."

Life