And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.
Interpretation
This quote expresses deep emotional pain and the longing for relief from internal suffering.
In this quote, Patrick Ness powerfully conveys the intensity of emotional turmoil and despair. The visceral imagery of a 'wordless wail' speaks to the inexpressible pain that can arise within a person, highlighting the struggle to cope with overwhelming feelings of darkness. It encapsulates the experience of feeling trapped within one's own suffering and the difficulty of articulating such profound distress.
In practice
In a mental health awareness campaign, to highlight the importance of talking about emotional pain.
HERE It’s- Can I say? It’s like the song of a family where everything’s always all right, it’s a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it’s a song that’ll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that’s broken, it fixes.
Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’ ‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don’t get any work done because we’re all looking at it too much?
In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
The books I like to read the most feel like they've been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.
Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me.
All experience and phenomena are understood to be a dream, this should not be just an intellectual understanding, but a vivid and lucid experience...Genuine integration of this point produces a profound change in the individual's response to the world. Grasping and aversion is greatly diminished, and the emotional tangles that once seemed so compelling are experienced as the tug of dream stories, and no more.
Receive Communion often, very often...there you have the sole remedy, if you want to be cured. Jesus has not put this attraction in your heart for nothing.
I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.
If we were able to live at the level of the soul all the time, there would be no need for hindsight to appreciate the great truths of life.
The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.
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