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Emma Forrest Quotes about Pain

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But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.

But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.

Emma Forrest
Pain, Wine, Sadness
Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.17, A&C Black

It's as if he can no longer acknowledge the love he felt or the pain I am in. I have been dismissed. I don't think I was smarter or as beautiful as the other girls he did this to. It's just that I was me. It was all I had.

Emma Forrest
Beautiful, Girl, Pain
Emma Forrest (2011). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.157, Bloomsbury Publishing

People don't know. We don't know ourselves so we tell ourselves what we really know is other people. We could say the depth of pain we feel for the lovers who've left us is because we knew them so well.

Emma Forrest
Pain, People, Depth
Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.58, A&C Black

It's like he has emotional amnesia... I think you have to accept that the person you knew isn't there at the moment. I was witness to how much he loved you. I have the photos. This isn't the person we knew. I don't recognize this person. He's shed his skin." Her heart is broken too. She has to say the thing that will give me back my life. She draws on every reserve. I see how much it hurts her and it hurts me too. I came from her joy and her pain, I lived in it and I live in it now.

Emma Forrest
Hurt, Pain, Heart

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