
Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much. —
Jackie Joyner-Kersee

I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart. —
Yann Martel

He could feel her warm breath on his face and the heat of her body just barely touching his and he wanted her with an ache that couldn't be explained. —
Jill Shalvis

If my eyes have pain, I close them; If my
body aches, I rest it; If my heart breaks, I mend it; If my soul is lost, I pray for it —
Jeremy Aldana

My teeth ache, my gums hurt, and my cat is tearing me apart, wanting you in every way imaginable. Your body. Your magic. Your fire spirit. Your blood. —
N.D. Jones

His body belongs to him more than most people's do, and I ache at the thought that it might have to stop, be still. You —
Ally Condie

Yes, it hurts to fall
ache, tenderness
- but each scar is a sign your system is working. —
Kelli Russell Agodon

Sometime I'll lay down my wrath,
As I lay my body down
Between the ache of breath and breath,
Golden slumber in the bone. —
Allen Ginsberg

I miss him with every breathe I take. My muscles ache for him. My body craves him. My heart beats for him. I want him back. —
Beckie Stevenson

what knowledge haunts each body, what history, what phantom ache? —
Natasha Trethewey