There's always a gap between the burn and the sting of it, the pain and the realization... You can't survive a rift that big without it leaving a mark.

Jennifer E. Smith
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The quote, “There’s always a gap between the burn and the sting of it, the pain and the realization. You can’t survive a rift that big without it leaving a mark”, is about how to deal with pain and suffering. The quote is saying that when you feel pain you need to realize that there will be a gap between the pain and the realization. Until then, you will continue to feel pain and suffer.

When there is a gap between the pain and the realization it means that you will not understand what the real meaning of the pain means. It means that you will not know what to do with your pain until after you realize what it meant.

Source: The Statistical Probability Of Love At First Sight

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