Ally Carter Quotes

The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.

There are only so many ways to experience pain. There are an almost limitless number of ways to inflict it, but the pain itself, initially vividly distinct in all its specifications, becomes, inevitably, just pain.

I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence.

Pain was a fascinating horror

Nathaniel closes his eyes and jumps, his arms glued to his sides like that fly's. He doesn't try to break his fall, just hits hard, because it hurts less than everything else.

Gripping my arm, Mother held it in the orange-blue flame. My skin seemed to explode from the heat.

How cruel my suffering is,—no one is more talkative than I am!

We apply fight-or-flight reflexes not only to predators, but to data itself.

Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.

You should see ballerinas' feet. They don't have nails. You see beauty, but it's unbelievable pain - with a 40-year pension! That's it, and then life is really finished.

You can run but you can't hide... but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am still alive.

You'd think I was shoving bamboo splinters under your nails. (Alice from Twilight)

It hurts and hurts to have him this close. I feel sick with it.

The athlete knows the day will never come when he wakes up pain-free. He has to play hurt.

Pain is part of the sport.

The most challenging obstacle I've had to overcome was my endometriosis diagnosis. Besides the physical pain that I had to endure, I had to completely change my perspective on food. It was a huge challenge to have to change the way I'd eaten for so long.

Like falling stars from the universe we are hurled Down through the long loneliness of the world Until we behold the pain, become the pearl

Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.

Pain has an element of blank

He struggled to breathe through the agony in his chest. The Fates were still mocking him. It must be a boring day for them up on Olympus.

More than most, I know the pain of surviving.

Later on Lady Maccon was to describe that particular day as the worst of her life. She had neither the soul nor the romanticism to consider childbirth magical or emotionally transporting. So far as she could gather it mostly involved pain indignity and mess. There was nothing engaging or appealing about the process. And as she told her husband firmly she intended never to go through it again.

There are lessons to life That the lovers got to learn There are corners out there You know they're waitin' somewhere And you've got to be prepared to turn There are callouses that come That the lovers got to earn In the years of your youth You can't be fire proof You know you've got to get burned.

Hermione was screaming again: the sound went through Harry like physical pain.

No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.