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• Wounded?” was all I could manage. “Yes,” said Pat. “And you’re wounded in the same place. That’s what fathers do if they don’t heal their wounds. They wound their children in the same place.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Children, Father, Said

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.182, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The wound you refuse to dress is one that will never heal. You gush lifeblood and never even know why. It will make you weak at a critical moment when you need to be strong.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Strong, Dresses, Needs

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1508, Dell

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• Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy. Now I have taken my worst wound in this parting, even if I were to go this night straight to the Dark Lord. Alas for Gimli son of Glóin!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Taken, Son, Saying Goodbye

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.267, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Relax, Alive

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• "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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Recovering from a gunshot wound is not a vacation. You need to, like, write that on your hand or something.

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Writing, Vacation, Hands

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• Time doesn’t, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might in its own way be even more intense.

  Dean Koontz

  Grief, Sorrow, Might

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• The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.

  Haruki Murakami

  Blood, Doe, Target

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• Her little fists pummeled at him, and he accepted the abuse. Until he realized she’d made an improper fist and was actually hurting herself. He wound an arm around her waist, spun her and slammed her into the hard line of his body to still her. “Let me go!” “In a minute.” As she struggled, he pulled her thumb out from beneath her fingers and rearranged her fist. “Hit like this.” Done, he released her.

  Gena Showalter

  Hurt, Abuse, Done

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Seduction”, p.348, HQN Books

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• Then there were things-- epic, terrible things-- that he didn't tell her but skirted around, like caressing the edges of a wound, hesitant, testing for pain.

  Laini Taylor

  Pain, Epic, Terrible

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