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“You are bigger than this pain.” But I’m not. I never have been. I have always been lost in the current of it, drowning in a violent, blinding hurt that comes and goes at random. The pain is sharp and loud, and I am soft. It claws at
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“The pain is a liar. It whispers that I’m weak—that I will not make it through this next swell. It whispers that I will—that the pain will endlessly endure—and that’s almost worse. There is no beginning or end and time becomes a smudge of harsh golden sunlight and silver slanted moonlight until eventually the red riot in my head abates to brown and green, like the sky brightening as a storm subsides.”
― The Poison Daughter
― The Poison Daughter
“You are bigger than this pain.” But I’m not. I never have been. I have always been lost in the current of it, drowning in a violent, blinding hurt that comes and goes at random. The pain is sharp and loud, and I am soft. It claws at everything, hollows out thought with a bright ache that demands stillness, razes all sense of self. And all I can do is try to survive it. One moment, one breath, one aching blink at a time.”
― The Poison Daughter
― The Poison Daughter
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