Wounds Quotes - Page 5

• Soldiers may be wounded in battle and sent to a hospital. A hospital isn't a shelf. It's a place of repair. And a soldier in the spiritual army is never off his battlefield. He is only removed to another part of the battlefield when a wound interrupts what he was meant to do, and sets him doing something else.

  Amy Carmichael

  Spiritual, Army, Soldier

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• For I need this scar over my heart to remind me. Crazy as it sounds, if I can bear the wound on my body, it lessens what I must carry on my soul. How he knew that about me, I cannot fathom.

  Ann Aguirre

  Crazy, Heart, Soul

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.97, Penguin

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• She would allow him to comfort her. And perhaps, someday, she would listen patiently if a dark, dreary night found him well in his cups and he drunkenly confessed to still feeling scores of wounds that weren’t his own, but those of men under his command.

  Tessa Dare

  Dark, Night, Men

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• Don't die on me," she whispered when the clock struck midnight and he still had not moved. "It's only a little shoulder wound. Goddess, George-don't die on me." His eyes flickered open and he smiled. "I didn't know you cared," he whispered. "And why insult me? I won't die for a wee nick like this; I've had worse in my day." Alanna wiped her wet cheeks. "Of course I care, you unprincipled pickpocket!" she whispered. "Of course I care.

  Tamora Pierce

  Eye, Care, Littles

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “In the Hand of the Goddess”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt, Mean, Mind

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• I had learned that there were substitutes for a mother who couldn't be a mother. You could find love with other people. You could find it in places you weren't even looking. But the original wound would never heal. I would carry it with me forever, and so would Tara. That was the trick . . . accepting it, going on with your life, knowing it was part of you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Mother, Knowing, People

  Lisa Kleypas (2017). “The Travis Family, The Complete Series: Blue Eyed Devil, Smooth Talking Stranger, Sugar Daddy, and Brown-Eyed Girl”, p.345, Macmillan

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• He took a hairpin out of my untidy hair (by now my complicated arrangement of ringlets must have looked as if a couple of birds had been nesting there); he took a strand of it and wound it around his finger. With his other hand he began stroking my face, and then he bent down and kissed me again, this time very cautiously. I closed my eyes - and the same thing happened as before: my brain suffered that delicious break in transmission.

  Kerstin Gier

  Couple, Eye, Hands

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• He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the memory, a wound that would ache whenever certain things combined - the taste of gin at mid-day, the smell of flowers under a balcony, the clang of corrugated iron, an ugly bird flopping from perch to perch.

  Graham Greene

  Memories, Flower, Men

  Graham Greene, Henry J. Donaghy (1992). “Conversations with Graham Greene”, p.71, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.

  Emma Forrest

  Get Well, Names, Time Heals

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.172, A&C Black

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• Instead, I cut him. Not deep, but there was enough of a sting in the wound to remind him of what I'd done to the dwarven mobsters in the parking lot - and that I wasn't just some chick with a knife who looked good in black.

  Jennifer Estep

  Cutting, Knives, Black

  Jennifer Estep (2011). “Spider's Revenge”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my jealousy will wound the other, because I allow myself to be subject to a banality: I suffer from being excluded, from being aggressive, from being crazy, and from being common.

  Roland Barthes

  Crazy, Jealous, Men

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• n the dark everyone felt the same: the edges blurred. When I think of myself then, what I was like two years ago, I feel like a wound in a bad place, prone to be bumped on corners or edges. Never able to heal.

  Sarah Dessen

  Dark, Thinking, Years

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• She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

  Mitch Albom

  Used, Bandages

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• We could go back to the time when we first met: a man in emotional tatters over someone who had left him, and a woman madly in love with her neighbor. I could repeat what I said to you once: 'I'm going to fight to the bitter end.' Well, I fought and I lost, and now I'll just have to lick my wounds and leave.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fighting, Men, Emotional

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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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• You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I‘ll never recover.

  Nalini Singh

  Tears, Pieces

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Kiss of Snow”, p.346, Penguin

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• If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.

  Haruki Murakami

  Wells, Mines, Left

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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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• 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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• 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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• Time, time will heal the wound.

  Jane Austen

  Heal

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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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• 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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• 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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