Block Quote by James Ramsey Ullman

“He watched the pain's unsummoned appearance with a cold, detached curiosity; he said to himself: Well, here it is again. He waited to see…

— Ayn Rand

He felt his heart, which no longer beat, contract, and he wondered if there was anything in the world as painful as not being…

— Cassandra Clare

Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.

— St. Catherine of Siena

And for all he had learned to bandage himself up on the outside, the wound remained just as bad and deep as the moment…

— J.R. Ward

He made a story for all of them, a story to give them strength. The words of the story poured out of his mouth…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.

— Alice Hoffman

“The incline and height of the rocks increased sharply, making his climb more difficult. He needed his other hand totally free, as he knew…

— David Ball

No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.

— Diana Gabaldon

The hand descended. Nearer and nearer it came. It touched the ends of his upstanding hair. He shrank down under it. It followed down…

— Jack London

The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?

— Maile Meloy

He had got down to the bones of it, and they were fine and strong and simple.

— Kenneth Grahame

“The secret, it turned out, had not been to harden himself to the point of breaking. It had not been to become numb. It…

— Robert Jordan