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Oddly, the burned hand didn't seem to hurt much anymore; it was only numb. It would have been better...

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I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middl...

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I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.

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Sylvia PlathThe Collected Poems

At such moments the collapse of their courage, willpower, and endurance was so abrupt that they felt...

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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then...

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Numb the dark and you numb the light.

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Brené BrownDaring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live

You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, bu...

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Douglas CouplandPlayer One: What Is to Become of Us

After great pain, a formal feeling comes – The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs – The stiff Heart ...

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Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman...

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