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• Despite the heat in her face, it felt as if cold needles of ice were running up and down her veins. "What are you doing here?" He drew back slightly, looking disappointed. "That isn't really an answer to my question, you know. I was expecting more of a "Hallelujah Chorus.' I mean, it's not every day your boyfriend comes back from the dead." "I already knew you weren't dead." She spoke through numb lips. "I saw you in the library. With--" "Colonel Mustard?" "Sebastian.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Mean, Ice

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• We musicians, like everyone else, are numb with sorrow at this murder, and with rage at the senselessness of the crime. But this sorrow and rage will not inflame us to seek retribution; rather they will inflame our art. Our music will never again be quite the same. This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. And with each note we will honor the spirit of John Kennedy, commemorate his courage, and reaffirm his faith in the Triumph of the Mind.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Art, Honor, Mind

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• I try to tighten my heart into a knot, a snarl, I try to learn to live dead, just numb, but then I see someone I want, and it's like a nail, like a hot spike right through my chest, and I know I'm losing.

  Tony Kushner

  Heart, Trying, Hot

  Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.81, Theatre Communications Group

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• You can see desperation in people who are too eager to laugh because they're in such a hurry not to look at what's confronting them in their lives and that's kind of sad because there's a kind of pornographic aspect to it, of making some sort of pain go away, of hovering around a pain, making yourself numb, not feel anything.

  Dylan Moran

  Pain, People, Laughing

  "Dylan Moran Makes Sentences of Things". Interview with J.L. Sirisuk, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 13, 2013.

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• Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.

  Dean Koontz

  Loyalty, Grace, Despair

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.1588, Bantam

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• A pill to make you numb A pill to make you dumb A pill to make you anybody else But all the drugs in this world Won't save her from herself.

  Marilyn Manson

  Suicide, Self Harm, Drug

  Song: Coma White

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• Sometimes we love people so much that we have to be numb to it. Because if we actually felt how much we love them, it would kill us. That doesn't make you a bad person. It just means your heart's too big.

  Brittany Murphy

  Heart, Mean, People

  "Fictional character: Fay Forrester". "Riding in Cars with Boys", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• I think grief is a step towards strength because it allows you to be porous and take everything in, and have it transform you. What will sit within you is despairing, but at least it's feeling. You're not numb. Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Grief, Thinking, Feelings

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• I contented myself with whiskey, for medicinal purposes. It helped numb my various aches and pains. Not that the alcohol actually reduced the pain; it just gave the pain a life of its own, apart from mine.

  Haruki Murakami

  Pain, Alcohol, Purpose

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• The idea—the fact of it, the fact that he even noticed and thought about me for more than one second—is huge and overwhelming, makes my legs go tingly and my hands feel numb.

  Lauren Oliver

  Hands, Ideas, Legs

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.69, Harper Collins

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• I fear that a life of death has made me numb to both.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Made

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• Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb.

  Anne Sexton

  Fees, Borrowed

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Lucy swayed in shock. A gust of wind moaned through the conservatory and blew out all but one of her candles. Simon must have done this. He’d destroyed his fairyland conservatory. Why? She sank to her knees, huddled on the cold floor, her one remaining flame cradled in her numb palms. She’d seen how tenderly Simon had cared for his plants. Remembered the look of pride when she’d first discovered the dome and fountain. For him to have smashed all this . . . He must have lost hope. All hope.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Pride, Flames, Wind

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• Numb, I took the perfectly browned puff. Okay. Let me see if I have this right. Al provokes me into defending myself. I nearly kill him. Then Newt tries to kill me, thinking I'm Ku'Sox. Al stops her, saving my life. And now we're all going to have s'mores together?

  Kim Harrison

  Thinking, Trying, Together

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• If I'm going to cry, now is the time. By morning, I'll be able to wash all the damage done by the tears from my face. But no tears come. I'm too tired or too numb to cry. The only thing I feel is a desire to be somewhere else. So I let the train rock me into oblivion.

  Suzanne Collins

  Morning, Tired, Rocks

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.49, Scholastic Inc.

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• If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sharp pain of immediate berevement, both the Prince and I passed into the gray days of numb bewilderment and waiting. So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it.

  Robin Hobb

  Fashion, Hurt, Pain

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Fool's Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy”, p.611, Spectra

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• 'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new.

  Jerry Saltz

  Summer, Art, New York

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• It's the music that pulls me in and makes me forget about my problems at home. Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.

  Simone Elkeles

  Home, Drug, Problem

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Sleep is still difficult I sleep for three or four hours a day. Usually sometime in the afternoon. I walk in the cold, keep myself numb. I cry less, and less." (James Frey, pg.88)

  James Frey

  Sleep, Three, Afternoon

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• Through fear of knowing who we really are we sidestep our own destiny, which leaves us hungry in a famine of our own making...we end up living numb, passionless lives, disconnected from our soul's true purpose. But when you have the courage to shape your life from the essence of who you are, you ignite, becoming truly alive.

  Dawna Markova

  Destiny, Essence, Knowing

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• I love the slow, warming sensation of my body going numb when I drink.

  Patricia Gaffney

  Body, Drink, Sensations

  Patricia Gaffney (2009). “The Saving Graces: A Novel”, p.140, Harper Collins

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• He felt strangely numb. As though from a great distance, he was aware that he was being beaten. The last sensations of pain left him. He no longer felt anything, though very faintly he could hear the impact of the club upon his body. But it was no longer his body, it seemed so far away.

  Jack London

  Pain, Distance, Impact

  Jack London (2016). “The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.47, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Kindness was the last thing she needed. She had to stay in the icy place, the numb place, and their warmth threatened to melt her just when she needed the cold.

  Janet Fitch

  Kindness, Icy, Lasts

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• In a society that almost demands life at double time, speed and addictions numb us to our own experience. In such a society, it is almost impossible to settle into our bodies or stay connected with our hearts, let alone connect with one another or the earth where we live.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Addiction, Body

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.24, Random House

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• In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like all narcotics, on the road to self-destruction. It does not affirm but places upon us greater and greater demands. It destroys the outside world until it is hard to live outside war's grip. It takes a higher and higher dose to achieve any thrill. Finally, one ingests war only to remain numb.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Like Love, Self

  Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.162, PublicAffairs

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