“His heart still seemed to ache, the way an overstrained muscle twinged when one put weight on it. Like muscle strain, it would pass with a little rest, he suspected.”

—  Lois McMaster Bujold, Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)

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