"Pain collected into deep pockets and I was aware of this painbut somehow I could not seem to feel it. It was like a body-deafness."

-- Karen Russell

#Pain Quotes #Pockets Quotes #Body Quotes

“The foolish rush to end their lives. Only the steadfast soul survives.”
“Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.”
“I don't want awards. I am not saying this like it's a case of sour grapes. It isn't. I have been to a couple of award functions, and I soon realised that it doesn't give me the kick that it does to others.”
“My family are all storytellers, and I think I inherited a lot more of that gene than other people in my family. I guess I was fun to have around.”
“I sometimes think about that, when I finish in something big I find it even hard, I feel like I lose an actual noticeable percentage of my reading time. Even on the reader end I find it so hard when a book that I love so much ends, to find the kindness to enter into a new one. Do you know what I'm saying? To find my way in, I feel like even there's that space after. I just love inhabiting a book that hits right.”

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“Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc.”

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“Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.”
“I'd like to keep singing - whether that's small or big. To stop singing for a living would break my heart.”

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