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Oddly, the burned hand didn't seem to hurt much anymore; it was only numb. It would have been better if there had been pain. Pain was at least real.

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A hurt body and mind aren’t just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusio...more

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Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

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Good! he wanted to cry out to her. Good! Because you only had to see it! I had to wear it!