Heart Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

“She listened for the pain in my words, not to the narrative itself. She was intuiting what it meant to me, what was most…

— Alice Sebold

“It seemed to her that almost any pain was sympathetic to her loss and she inserted herself immediately into the concept of fantastic suffering.”

— Louise Erdrich

“It was the voice of someone who had known both amazing joy and intense pain, and who knew that ultimately you can’t really have…

— Brent Hartinger

“Her pain was so strong, so shrill she could almost understand a man’s suffering when he had a cold.”

— Gena Showalter

“At times like these, she wished she could do more - that she could be the one to take the pain away. But she…

— Vanessa Greene

“That was her life's challenge. Not to shy away from the pain. Not to deny it, but rather to take it on. Give it…

— Ann Brashares

“She would survive because that was what she did. But the pain of a loss--the grief for something she could never have--would haunt her.”

— Allison Brennan

“There were other times when she was so shattered by ideas that she could do nothing worth while; when they trampled over her like…

— Willa Cather

“She had never been in love before. She'd tried to save herself the pain, but all her pretending and hiding the truth from herself…

— Melanie Dickerson

“She already knew from personal experiences that life could be cruel and unfair. She also knew she had to do what it took to…

— M.V. Kasi

“It shouldn’t have surprised her. Didn’t she know better than almost anyone what sort of filth humans were capable of? But it did, every…

— Stacia Kane

“She could almost feel him prodding her; urging her to go on. As the wails of pain and torment assulted her ears, she knew…

— Jaclyn A Wilson