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• In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.

  Brennan Manning

  Healing, Past, Light

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• Well before I was in a band, I wanted to be everything from a vet, an astronaut, an archeologist was a big one. It could be very wide-ranging because I had a lot of different interests including music so I'm very happy where I wound up.

  Joan Jett

  Different, Vets, Band

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. October 7, 2013.

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• Though I am young, and cannot tell Either what Death or Love is well, Yet I have heard they both bear darts, And both do aim at human hearts. And then again, I have been told Love wounds with heat, as Death with cold; So that I fear they do but bring Extremes to touch, and mean one thing. As in a ruin we it call One thing to be blown up, or fall; Or to our end like way may have By a flash of lightning, or a wave; So Love’s inflamèd shaft or brand May kill as soon as Death’s cold hand; Except Love’s fires the virtue have To fight the frost out of the grave.

  Ben Jonson

  Fall, Heart, Mean

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “The magnetic lady: or, humours reconciled. A tale of a tub. The sad shepherd: or, a tale of Robin Hood. The case is altered. Entertainments, &c”, p.266

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• As for those whose role it is to love us - I mean, relatives and in-laws (what a word)- It's a different tune. They find the right word, but it's usually the one that wounds.

  Albert Camus

  Mean, Law, Tunes

  Albert Camus (2006). “The fall”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

  George R. R. Martin

  Pain, Being Hurt, Old Wounds

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.50, Bantam

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• We can never found the soul, just as we can never wound God, but we become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched, even when we have everything we need in order to be happy.

  Paulo Coelho

  Memories, Order, Soul

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• Birchfall lapped at his wound "You're not very sympathetic for a medicine cat" "I'm here to HEAL you. If you want sympathy, go to the nursery" Jaypaw mewed

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Medicine, Nurse

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• What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.

  Haruki Murakami

  Care, Norwegian Wood, Terrible

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 05, 2014

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• It was all very strange, Mr. Gray thought, as he wiped the coffee canister clean with a sponge. Very, very mysterious. You were born; you lived a whole life; and at the end, you wound up in a coffee canister. "Ah, well," he said out loud quietly. "That's just the way things are. Life's a funny business." Death, he supposed, was the punch line.

  Lauren Oliver

  Coffee, Lines, Way

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Liesl & Po”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• One way or another, I have wound up destroying what I've loved. I've seen my dreams fall apart just when I seemed to achieve them. I always thought tat was just the way life was. My life anf everybody else's.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Fall, Way

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• In my time,” he said, “they believed in witches. Are you a witch, Honor, that you make me say these things to you?” Causing him to rip open wounds that had stayed safely scabbed over for so long that, most of the time, he managed to forget they existed. Her hands, so very, very gentle, continued to hold his face as she tugged him down until their foreheads touched. “I’m no witch, Dmitri. If I was, I’d know how to fix you.

  Nalini Singh

  Rip, Hands, Long

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.1122, Penguin

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• Why lily?” “It’s the most sacred and beautiful of all flowers in Egypt. They bloom in mud and shine in the darkness like a gift from the gods to remind you that no matter how bad something is, it will get better. That no matter how dark the night, the light will come for you. If you partake of them, they have the power to calm and soothe you, and to heal your wounds.” When he spoke his next words, they were laced with emotion and sincerity. “You are, and will always be, my sšn.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Beautiful, Flower, Dark

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “The Guardian”, p.154, Hachette UK

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• "It was suicide, wasn't it?" "In an involuntary sort of way," said Vorob'yev. "These Cetagandan political suicides can get awfully messy, when the principal won't cooperate." "Thirty-two stab wounds in the back, worst case of suicide they ever saw?" murmured Ivan, clearly fascinated by the gossip. "Exactly, my lord."

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Suicide, Two, Gossip

  "Cetaganda (Vorkosigan Saga, Book 15)". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, January 1996.

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• For every wound, the ointment of time.

  Sharon Kay Penman

  Sharon Kay Penman (2008). “Falls the Shadow: A Novel”, p.32, Macmillan

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• They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite

  Cassandra Clare

  Sad, Time, Get Well

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.601, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me. Therefore I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them.

  William Hazlitt

  Lying, Hate, Eye

  William Hazlitt (1826). “The plain speaker: opinions on books, men, and things [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.364

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• Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back.

  Thornton Wilder

  Children, Heart, Angel

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• Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.

  Victor Hugo

  Two, Blades, Edges

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.842, Wordsworth Editions

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• It was selfish what I asked her to do, even if it wound up being the most unselfish thing I've ever done.

  Gayle Forman

  Selfish, Done, Ifs

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• Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Two, Yellow, People

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• At that time I told myself that I didn't want to fall in love ever again. But that night while praying for your happiness Nana, I thought that despite all the wounds and all the pains it could cause I wanted to dream again, and love someone with all my heart.

  Ai Yazawa

  Dream, Falling In Love, Pain

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• Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of dark corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.

  Markus Zusak

  Dark, Scar, Remember

  Markus Zusak (2011). “Underdogs”, p.161, Scholastic Inc.

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• Some scars never heal. And he sounds like he has a lot of them.' 'But Christ had scars too, even on His risen Body. Wounds in this life become glory in the next.

  Regina Doman

  Sound, Body, Next

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• The overall "look, this is the one way to live" approach to this individual who is clearly living a happy life, who is clearly completely satisfied with and fulfilled by the tasks that he was able to complete every day, like eating, healing his own wounds, doctoring himself and whatever. And then this voice says, "Look, your life is inadequate. This is the way you need to live." Giving that depiction of the subversive methods by which our way of life creeps into our own psyche and eliminates alternatives. That's what happens.

  Mr. Lif

  Healing, Happy Life, Giving

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