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“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

“I felt, by turns, numb, hot with a monstrous embarrassment, and sick as though I'd eaten splinters of glass and was slowly shredding inside.”

— Vanora Bennett

“I felt ancient and exhausted. I felt like a prisoner within myself and as if I was just watching a movie that was playing…

— J M Northup

“I felt something catch in my throat, a sudden surge of sadness that caught me unaware, almost taking my breath away. That was the…

— Sarah Dessen

“In having a purpose. I could feel it hardening up my bones and thickening my blood. I felt older and smarter than anyone else…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“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

“I felt disincarnate, cut loose from myself. How it would feel to be back in my body again I couldn’t imagine.”

— Donna Tartt

“I couldn't swallow. It had to be wrong. We had to be able to rewind. It couldn't be real. It felt so weightless. It…

— cristina henriquez

“I liked it. I craved it. I wanted more and I took it. I took it like I needed it, like my life had…

— Kristen Ashley

“I wanted to feel those words in my mouth as I spoke them aloud. Words could be like food - they felt like something…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.…

— Jon Krakauer

“It seemed to me that I was suddenly in the presence of incosolable, unavoidable, and immense pain. The thought of that death hunted me…

— Hélène Berr