Ann Aguirre Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• More than most, I know the pain of surviving.

  Ann Aguirre

  Pain, Surviving, Knows

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.18, Penguin

• We stand a professional distance apart, as if I can’t feel his pain screaming in my head. Mine amplifies his; they share a joint sound—that of glass breaking—until they swell to a crescendo that deafens.

  Ann Aguirre

  Pain, Distance, Glasses

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.51, Penguin

• Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.

  Ann Aguirre

  Pain, Perfection, Bears

  Ann Aguirre (2013). “Horde”, p.336, Macmillan

• So I make no effort to hide my pain. I don’t ever put it all on display like this—but for today and all the rest of the days of the trial, I must. My every flinch, every flicker of pain, will be magnified a hundred times over, then dissected by the pundits and talking heads. But I’m told it’s necessary; the world needs to see me vulnerable and wounded. I cannot appear not to care or to lack remorse, but that removes a crucial component of my self- defense mechanism and leaves me bleeding for all the world to see. I suppose that’s rather the point.

  Ann Aguirre

  Pain, Self, Talking

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