Pain Quote by Sarah Hilary

““Real pain and imagined pain feel the same. They trigger the same part of the brain, the social worker told me.””

Sarah Hilary

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“made her realise, again, how lucky she’d been to grow up in a secure, loving home.”

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“For my mother, the best in the world”

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“To check the fan’s working before the shit hits.”

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“His temples throbbed but the migraine had retreated, leaving a soft wash of endorphins in its wake. He lay blinking at the pillow, light-headed…

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“That no matter how loud you shout, sometimes you’re left alone. Sometimes, no one comes.”

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“An idea was knocking about in the back of her head, like a moth at a dimly lit window.”

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“It became its own discipline, the fear of failing to do as they said; a voice in her head berating her before anyone else…

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“The house was bay-windowed, clinging to its original features the way a pensioner clung to her handbag on pension day. The neighbours had put…

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“Wiring in nooses from the ceiling, waiting to be connected, plugged into the rest of the city.”

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“Many will have suffered depression as teenagers or young women, so they’ll be familiar with that stigma, the way treatment involves judgement. It shouldn’t,…

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“Her heart staggered and stuttered in her chest, like a rat caught in the cage of her ribs.”

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“We’re solitary by nature. Aren’t we? Even families … Fundamentally, I mean.”

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“do not misunderstand person by beauty You really do not know its real or Mask on dirty thoughts”

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“What is there, in the mention of Time To Come, that is so quick to wrench at the heart, to inflict a pain in the senses that is like the run of a sword, I wonder. Perhaps we feel our youngness taken from us without the soothe of sliding years, and the pains of age that come to stand unseen…

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