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• I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

  Franz Kafka

  Book, Reading, Blow

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.

  C. S. Lewis

  Divine, Divine Nature

  C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.290, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.

  Ann Voskamp

  Names, Thorns, Lips

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• Deeply, he felt the love for the run-away in his heart, like a wound, and he felt at the same time that this wound had not been given to him in order to turn the knife in it, that it had to become a blossom and had to shine. That this wound did not blossom yet, did not shine yet, at this hour, made him sad. Instead of the desired goal, which had drawn him here following the runaway son, there was now emptiness.

  Hermann Hesse

  Running, Heart, Fighting

  "Siddhartha".

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• Jesus.. says, 'Let go of your complaints, forgive those who loved you poorly, step over your feelings of being rejected, and have the courage to trust that you won't fall into an abyss of nothingness but into the safe embrace of a God whose love will heal all your wounds.

  Henri Nouwen

  Letting Go, Jesus, Fall

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• She’s really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching the dishes, and who begged to see the frosted cakes in the bakery window. Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Mother, Cake

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• Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love

  Clive Barker

  Love, Abarat, Being Unloved

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some wounds should be healed, no matter how much time has passed or how much time is left.

  Nalini Singh

  Matter, Should, Healed

  Nalini Singh (2008). “Mine to Possess”, p.76, Penguin

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• Your heart is not a wound to be poked at to see if the scab is ready to come off. You can be healed of that very old pain, if you’ll just let it happen. (Marianne)

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Pain, Heart, Scabs

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2005). “Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.71, Penguin

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• Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wounds you learn how to avoid getting wounded the next time.

  Pat Conroy

  Winning, Tragedy, Encounters

  Pat Conroy (2002). “My Losing Season”, Nan A. Talese

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• Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

  Aberjhani

  Silence, Grace, Mercy

  Aberjhani (2009). “The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009”, p.71, Lulu.com

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• The two are now bound inextricably. Should one die, the other will follow. No wepon in this world can wound only one of them

  Cassandra Clare

  Two, World, Should

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• Words can wound, and wounds can heal.

  Neil Gaiman

  Heal

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• It's not like a stab wound you can protect me from. It's like a million little paper cuts every day.

  Cassandra Clare

  Cutting, Paper, Littles

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.390, Simon and Schuster

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• I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dog, Beloved, Wander

  C. S. Lewis (1995). “The last battle”

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• Take one more step and I'll put an arrow through you." Will tried to model his voice on the quiet, threatening tone Halt had used. He had retrieved several of his arrows from the nearest target and now he had one of them ready, laid on the bowstring. Halt glanced around approvingly. "Good idea," he said. "Aim for the left calf. It's a very painful wound.

  John Flanagan

  Ideas, Voice, Arrows

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• Behind the fury, he was tired. He was tired of being hauled around and shoved into a little room. He was tired of trying for me and failing. And to have Minias know it, to be carted off under his leash…It was almost insulting. Maybe, if I gave Al a night of peace to lick his wounds and his pride, he would grant that same courtesy to me?

  Kim Harrison

  Tired, Pride, Night

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• Oblivion cures the old wounds.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Old Wounds, Oblivion, Cures

  "Memory and Oblivion". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• So well thy words become thee as thy wounds.

  William Shakespeare

  Thee, Wells

  William Shakespeare (1807). “Macbeth: A Tragedy”, p.23

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• And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which they knew not in themselves; and they grieved greatly for the loss of their friends. But Bëor at the last had relinquished his life willingly and passed in peace; and the Eldar wondered much at the strange fate of Men, for in all their lore there was no account of it, and its end was hidden from them.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Grief, Fate, Loss

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It was a light that shone over our faces, our wounds and scars. It was a light so brilliant and white it could have been beamed from heaven, and Brian and I could have been angels, basking in it. But it wasn’t, and we weren’t.

  Scott Heim

  Angel, Light, Wounds And Scars

  Scott Heim (1995). “Mysterious skin: a novel”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• While wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Difficult, Heal, Those We Love

  Twitter post from Jul 19, 2012

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• As brother stands by brother in distress, binding up his wounds and soothing his pain, so let us show our love towards our enemy. There is no deeper distress to be found in the world, no pain more bitter than our enemy's. Nowhere is service more necessary or more blessed than when we serve our enemies.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Brother, Pain, Blessed

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.98, SCM Press

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• Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it is said always to do. I began each day with the hope that the next day would be better, my recollections a little less pointed, but I would awake to the same pain, as if a black lamp were burning eternally inside me, radiating darkness.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Pain, Memories, Next Day

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.219, Faber & Faber

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• For once, Evie didn’t know what to say. She hadn’t really thought of her uncle as very human. He was more like a textbook who occasionally remembered to put on a tie. But it was clear that he was, indeed, human, with a deep wound named Rotke.

  Libba Bray

  Uncles, Ties, Textbooks

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