Time Quote by Joanna Campbell Slan

“…the feeling that flickered in me now was much older. There he was, his flesh laid open before me. This is something torn that…

— Madeline Miller

“I hurt in places that you brought back from the dead. Now I have to lay them to rest again.”

— Alfa H

“...but don't tell me about pain. Nobody knows unless they're on the inside.”

— Stephen King

“Old wounds. They faded, but they never really went away, did they?”

— Mary Kay Andrews

“(...) that the creature I loved was lying somewhere in a hole underground, to all intents and purposes dead until dark.”

— Charlaine Harris

“So I lie still and take deep, quiet breaths. Pain doesn't bother me. I'm not afraid. I'm used to living with pain.”

— Elena Dunkle

“The pain is constant, steady, never-ending. It's the only thing I know. I don't want to be awake anymore.”

— Katja Millay

“Oh God, the pain seemed to be waking up everywhere, like a monster coming alive in the dark under my bed.”

— Mia Sheridan

“I escape into sleep. Sleep is what I’ll miss most when I die.”

— Clare Cavanagh

“Sometimes it gets old, living in the shadows. Somehow they’re not quite so dark when you’re around.”

— A.L. Jackson

“No one forgets his pain, that’s a lie. It’s buried there in memory and remains in you forever.”

— Manlio Argueta

“But maybe that's what the dead do. They stay. They linger. Benign and sweet and painful. They don't need us. They echo all by…

— Sangu Mandanna