The King of Pain Quotes

“The one good thing about pain is that while you can remember it, you can't recreate it; you can't truly think it into recurring. You can rate it in retrospect—a toothache vs. banging your funny bone—but it doesn't work the way words or music do. You can hear things in your head, voices, music, over and over. You can close your eyes and visualize a place. But pain, the experience of it, either is or isn't. You are in pain, or you aren’t.”
― Seth Kaufman, The King of Pain: A Novel With Stories

“Walter, my first wife, Laila, used to throw around a quote. I don't know who said it first, but it went something like, 'If men menstruated, there would floating federal holidays for them.”
― Seth Kaufman, The King of Pain: A Novel With Stories

“I shake my head at this memory and am rewarded with the sensation that my lobes have somehow split apart and are now merrily banging against each other like a pair of castanets.”
― Seth Kaufman, The King of Pain: A Novel With Stories

“ignore”
― Seth Kaufman, The King of Pain: A novel with stories