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They wanted to help me with my pain.

They wanted to help me with my pain.
– Sherman Alexie

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  2. Pain is never added to pain. It multiplies. – Sherman Alexie
  3. I often wonder why I am the one who remember all the pain? – Sherman Alexie
  4. The problem is people want help, but when help arrives you want to tell the help how to help you. Learn to RECEIVE help. – Bobby F Kimbrough Jr
  5. Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works. – Sherman Alexie
  6. Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don’t want to play. – Sherman Alexie
  7. The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting. – Sherman Alexie
  8. I was emotionally erect. – Sherman Alexie
  9. If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads. – Sherman Alexie
  10. Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. — Sherman Alexie – Anita Silvey
  11. Summer coming like a car from down the highway. – Sherman Alexie
  12. I was crying because I had broken my best friend’s heart. – Sherman Alexie
  13. I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents. – Sherman Alexie
  14. There are family mysteries I cannot solve. There are family mysteries I am unwilling to solve. – Sherman Alexie
  15. He was going to punish me now. He couldn’t beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words. – Sherman Alexie
  16. It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away. – Sherman Alexie
  17. My grandmother’s last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance. – Sherman Alexie
  18. An Indian’s wealth   Is determined by what they lose And not by what they save. – Sherman Alexie
  19. I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn’t actually accept the truth, then the truth would become false. – Sherman Alexie
  20. You’re always making up stuff from the past,- she said. -œAnd the stuff you imagine is always better than the stuff that actually happened. – Sherman Alexie
  21. I’m quite aware of my differences. I wouldn’t classify them as weird – Sherman Alexie
  22. They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We’re the United Nations of juvenile delinquents. – Sherman Alexie
  23. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that. – Sherman Alexie
  24. If God were good, why would he create Rush Limbaugh? – Sherman Alexie
  25. Sure, we thought the acresThat we tilled were sacred,But how could we have knownThat wheat can haunt like ghosts – Sherman Alexie
  26. Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew there was never a good time to talk. – Sherman Alexie
  27. Junior based all of his decisions on his dreams and visions, which created a lot of problems. – Sherman Alexie
  28. I wanted stories, and I wanted them always, and I wanted the experience that only fiction could give me: I wanted to be inside them. – Neil Gaiman
  29. I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you. – Becca Fitzpatrick
  30. To help yourself, help others; to help others, help yourself. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  31. Problem is, though, sooner or later, physical pain, it’s… it’s manageable. See, real pain is emotional pain. That is the kind of pain that lasts. – Theo Raeken
  32. Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain . . . pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy. – Terry Pratchett
  33. If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain -” in time you will move through your pain. – Bryant McGill
  34. I’m sorry, I say. I didn’t give you everything you wanted. I wasn’t everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted. – Kaui Hart Hemmings
  35. Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you. – Anne Lamott
  36. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Help me. Please, help me. If you really exist, you skinny jew bastard, help me kill myself. – Hubert Selby Jr
  37. I wanted to see her sad. Taste her tears. I wanted to know what she sounded like when she cried. In pain, in pleasure, in both. – TM Frazier
  38. Pain helps the body grow.Riddles help the mind grow.Loss helps the heart grow.Temptations help the soul grow. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  39. Memory fill the night. Please help make my pain and memories light. In your arms I find comfort. Guide me in my days. Help me Lord, this night – Brent M Jones
  40. ..pain can’t be taken away. It has to leave on its own. And I wasn’t sure mine was the type of pain that wanted to go away. – Robyn Schneider

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