We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not only to tell our stories but to listen to what our stories tell us ... we are doing the work of memory.
Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
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Euripides
Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love
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Clive Barker
You don't need another Human Being to make your life complete, but let's be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn't see them as disasters In your soul, but cracks to put their love into, Is the most calming thing In this World.
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Emery Allen
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Bertolt Brecht
The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.
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Isobelle Carmody
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I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.
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