There is one pain I often feel, which you will never know. It is caused by the absence of you.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

I get 180 pain pills a month.

Starving for a high, a place to hang out inside my own head. Starving for touch. Pain, even. A way to feel. I need to feel.

A little bit of pain everywhere.

the things that keep him in power and enable him to inflict the kind of pain he does on his own people and others in the region.