Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

I had a horrible feeling my leg was broken. If it wasn’t, it had a lot of explaining to do.

Sometimes holding on to something that you still believe in is reason enough to justify some pain.

The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

It is when suffering finds a voice andsets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

Emma is not a person; Emma is a place that you get stuck in; Emma is a pain that you cannot erase.

I listened to the crashing thundering of a tiny tear tumbling like a wave down her beautiful face.

The life I've livedWhat more can one ask forApart from a grand exitSlit of the wristTotal bliss

Pain changes us. Mine made me want to be perfect, so that no one would ever want to leave me again.

Imagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it.

pain is like the cold. do not give it your attention. but unlike the cold do not deny being in pain

Oh, honey, of course it hurts! Beauty is pain. But you don't want to look like a troll, do you?

It was the first time in years I didn’t wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.