The worst type of crying wasn’t the kind everyone could see–the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained…
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
The marks humans leave are too often scars.
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say My tooth is aching than to say My heart is broken.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.
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