Agony Quote by Jodi Picoult

““She knows the truth can cause a sharp pain behind your eyes and that love sometimes feels like a fist around your throat.””

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I love feeling loved. I don't love knowing that I will always come in second place. I love the fact that at least sometimes when I am in my home, I'm not alone. I don't love the fact that it's not always. I love not having to answer to him. I don't love that he doesn't answer to me. I…

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But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete.

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“sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them. My”

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“The age wasn't as important as the milestones.”

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“When she had packed all the artifacts that made up their personal history into liquor store boxes, the house became strictly a feminine place. She stood with her hands on her hips, stoically accepting the absence of old Boston Celtics coasters and the tangle of fishing poles, the old dartboard from a Scots pub, the toolbox and downhill skis, the…

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As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but let that kneeling Saviour teach us that in prayer alone can we be forearmed against our lesser sorrows; that strength to bear flows into the heart that is opened in supplication; and that a sorrow which we are made able to endure…

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Love masters agony; the soul that seemed Forsaken feels her present God again And in her Father's arms Contented dies away.

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I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line—the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that…

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The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood.

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The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns and commercials for soap, income tax and cheap restaurants, magazines and credit cards and streetlights and computers... 'It is escapism, true,' he said, aloud. 'But is not the highest impulse in mankind the urge toward…

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

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There’s been a problem, a problem eating away at me from the inside out. I’ve become weak, I’ve shown human compassion, and it has weakened me. But no more. Tonight I will once again feast on fear and suffering. My appetite for agony will be awakened. I will once again taste the pain of others. I will feast on the…

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Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure.

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