She had the sort of beauty that left you bleeding internally after gazing for too long.

—Lydia Kang in A Beautiful Poison

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About Lydia Kang

Lydia Kang (born October 4, 1971) is an American author and internal medicine physician, best known for her adult historical novel Opium and Absinthe: A Novel and her medical nonfiction book Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything, co-written with Nate Pedersen.

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Somewhere in the world at that moment, there was a birth, a death, a sunrise, and a sunset. There was despair, and a burst of laughter, a promise broken, and a vow made.
And there was this kiss.

—Lydia Kang in A Beautiful Poison

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A funeral reminds you to be alive, doesn't it? It slaps you across the face and points out that there's still warm blood doing a jig in your veins.

—Lydia Kang in A Beautiful Poison

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I can tell you that the pain of living is worth it. That if you live, your life will be as full of love as it is darkness, and for every moment of pain, you'll have one of joy too.

—Emily Henry in The Love That Split the World

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Time healed, they said, but it wasn't true, or not completely. The first raw wound of loss had closed and silvered over, yes, but the scar it had left would never heal. It would always be there, aching and tender.

—Ruth Ware in The Death of Mrs. Westaway

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You see, for me, memories are difficult. Very often, they hurt. A curious thing about grief is the way it takes your entire life, all those foundational years that made you who you are, and makes them so painful to look back upon because of the absence there, that suddenly they're inaccessible.

—Casey McQuiston in White & Royal Blue

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Pain was my tie to a past that a part of me wanted to hold on to. The more I hurt, the more I knew I loved, and that felt like a good thing.

—Daria Snadowsky in Anatomy of a Single Girl

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I can't pretend to know what it feels like to lose a child, but I assume it's the worst pain I've ever felt times a thousand, or times a hundred thousand.

—Elin Hilderbrand in The Identicals

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