Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain..
Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break….
Her heart began to ache, and she felt the numbness slip away. Misery welled up inside her. She clamped down on it, trying to hold onto the deadness t….
It was too much. The comfortable people made comfortable jokes about weather and things but I sat mostly silent saying a word or so when necessary a ….
Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain..
She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head..
Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone..
The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to reme….
In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed..
Wasn't it time she risked getting hurt again, instead of just accepting the numbness of never letting anyone in?.
You have to be nicer to me," I said. Again he laughed. "What? I'm the King of nice. What are you talking about?" "You have to be nicer to me or... or….