Gemma Bond

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“I don’t understand it,” I continued. “These things, they just keep happening, and I know it has to mean something. It has to. I want my suffering to mean something. I want this pain to matter.”
― Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

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“The ‘if onlys’ tore at me in the day and in the suffocation of the night. Dragging on my breath and haunting my dreams.”
― Anne Griffin, When All Is Said

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“It must be the worst kind of suffering – cognizance of one’s own collapse, the penance of watching as things slip away.”
― Avni Doshi, Girl in White Cotton

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“It's always a choice between fireworks and coffee in bed,' Fabiana says. 'It always is.”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

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“I never asked her how she coped losing the person she knew best. The person who accepted her humanity and all the failings that came with it. The person who loved her unconditionally. The person whose hand was always there to hold. I wish now I had.”
― Anne Griffin, When All Is Said

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