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“My head ached worst of all, some part of me tethered back to the valley, stretched out of recognizable shape and trying to make…

— Naomi Novik

“It seems like the more my body healed, the more fractured my mind became, and there aren't enough wires and screws to fix he…

— Katja Millay

“For a moment I feel as though I exist outside of my body, as if I'm looking at myself from his perspective. I see…

— Tahereh Mafi

“Now I knew why I had been hollowed out, why my insides were chipped away with a chisel and mallet. It was to make…

— Lang Leav

“But my back hurt like hell. I never realized how much pain three cracked vertebrae could inflict on a guy. Of course, I never…

— Marcus Luttrell

“I felt myself increasingly unmoored from real life. it was as if the children were ropes tying me to the World. Without them, I…

— Tamar Cohen

“All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I held on…

— Sebastian Faulks

“I felt like an integral part of my being had just been ripped out of me, only to have it replaced with something that…

— Theresa Smith

“I thought how there was a kind of power in being needed. In having a purpose. I could feel it hardening up my bones…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“But breaking was beautiful. It hurt, and it was an uphill climb back to sanity, but you came back stronger, fiercer, and more solid…

— Penelope Douglas

“The more I understood what we were all made of, the more everyone I'd touched stayed inside me, still crying out, showing me their…

— Kawai Strong Washburn

“Some days I wake up and all I feel are the fractures in the flesh that covers the only me I've ever known. Some…

— Tyler Knott Gregson