Numb Quote by Aspen Matis Download Open image ““The true answer held my chest like an unwanted hand’s sudden touch, uncomfortable and unfeeling.”” — Aspen Matis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Numb Rape Secret Sexual assault Shame Uncomfortable Unwanted Violation
“I put my hand on my chest, a habit I never quite shook after losing my heart.” — Jessica Fortunato Copy Share Image
“I felt that same tingly sensation begin in my hand, up my arm, to my chest and it was as if it jump-started my… — S.L. Ross Copy Share Image
“He took my hand and held it against his chest, "Feel that? It beats for you.” — Karli Perrin Copy Share Image
“I quickly imagined that I could reach my hand into my chest, yank out that awful feeling, place it on an invisibl ecloud of… — Jennifer Castle Copy Share Image
“Strong arms cradled me against a muscular chest, and I was enveloped with warmth. I felt comforted, safe.” — Autumn Reed Copy Share Image
“When the initial pain of shock wore off, I thought it strange I should feel the pain of his slap in my chest, but… — C.J. Roberts Copy Share Image
“It continued to amaze me how the touch of skin on skin had altered things: curled in the crook of his arm, my head… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“For the first time, I don't feel the giant hands pressing around my heart. Instead, I feel weightless, as if someone has untied a… — Stewart Lewis Copy Share Image
“Instinctively, I held my hand to my chest sure that holding pressure would prevent my bleeding heart’s contents from seeping out. Needing a reprieve,… — T.R. Graves Copy Share Image
“His hand reached up to his chest and rubbed at the area over his heart as if it hurt him.” — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
“This isn’t a complaint, but I have to ask why you do that.” “Do what?” “Touch me like you have every right in the… — Amelia C. Gormley Copy Share Image
“I once had a lover and his arms were so strong that my skull was crushed in his grip. With his bare hands he… — Naomi Wallace Copy Share Image
“I trusted my husband so purely, as raindrops trust the ocean as they’re falling.” — Aspen Matis Copy Share Image
“Seamless like a fall leaf changing color, my will switched powerfully.” — Aspen Matis Copy Share Image
“I felt lit up, as if someone had reached into my heart and flipped an inner switch, turning me on, brighter.” — Aspen Matis Copy Share Image
“I felt a thrill—a new civil affinity budding in my dreams and in the brick-and-mortar city, simultaneously: that we, the people, were awakening to… — Aspen Matis Copy Share Image
“In the small hours of a cold February dawn, Justin and I walked to the Pacific, high cliffs eroding over the ocean, crashed and… — Aspen Matis Copy Share Image
“That evening after dinner, I picked lemons from the tree in the backyard, the fruits golden bulbs under the rising moon.” — Aspen Matis Copy Share Image
“When tomorrow broke, our hillside home filled up with honeyed light, a fish tank.” — Aspen Matis Copy Share Image
“The structure crouched like a great stone tiger on a slope of the East Bay, resting on the cliffside with calm grace.” — Aspen Matis Copy Share Image
She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
I think violence in movies, for it to work, you have to use it smartly. People get numb very fast. If you have too… — Fede Alvarez Copy Share Image
You work on something for so long that you become numb to it. Like, you don't even know how to listen to it because… — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the… — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they cant feel anymore. — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
But while ignorance can make you insensitive, familiarity can also numb. Entering the second half-century of an information age, our cumulative knowledge has changed… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
We have become dangerously comfortable- believers ooze with wealth and let their addictions to comfort and security numb the radical urgency of the gospel. — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
I injured my neck in training, but did physical therapy and thought everything was fine, but when I fell against the cage everything went… — Charles Oliveira Copy Share Image