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If she's in pain now she doesn't show it; she just closes her eyes and surrenders, and that is worse than her screaming for help, somehow.

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Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mend...more

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You’re too important to just … die.” He shakes his head. He won’t even look at me—his eyes keep shifting across myface, to the wall behind me or the c...more

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People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.

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But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everythi...more

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I don't want to die anymore. I am up to the challenge of bearing the guilt and the grief up to facing the difficulties that life has put in my path. S...more

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I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my mother, and the pain they bequeathed to me l...more

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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.

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Yeah, well, we're all afraid." I sighed. "The angry more than most, I think.

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I know what it is to become something you hate, I know how it hurts. But life is full of hurt. And your capacity for baring it is much greater than yo...more

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What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them.pg 459

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I may be in pain, but I am not weak.

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I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

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I wish I could tell him that we’re going through the same thing. I wish I could speak to him like I want to instead of like I’m supposed to. But the i...more

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Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.