“Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank…”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the pro…”— Alice Walker, amazon.com
“Most commonly, pain or bleeding isn't about the hymen at all. Instead, it is more commonly about about feeling nervous, rushed, unsafe or scared, not aroused enough or having a partner be too hasty. Not communicating that something hurts, and keeping on in silence is another common culprit with pain…”— Heather Corinna, scarleteen.com
“I am so sorry for the pain I've caused you. And I know I can't take it back, but I wanna try and make it up to you. Even if it takes me the rest of my life.”— Stephanie Savage, Joshua Safran, Chuck Bass, Ed Westwick, imdb.com
“We're holding onto pain because it's all we have left.”— Jake Coburn, Chuck Bass, Ed Westwick, imdb.com
“Is it possible to deviate from the path of God has made? Yes, but it’s always a mistake. Is it possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you’ll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experienced it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“You're wrong when you say that other people have recovered from the trauma, they've simply hidden it away in a place they never go to.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Just because your pain is understandable, doesn’t mean your behavior is acceptable.”— Steve Maraboli, Dr. Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept inside, and other things get in that ought to be shut out. The locks lose their powers. The guards go to sleep. The passwords fail.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com