Wounds are like water set to boil — they heal best left unwatched...

Gabrielle Zevin
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make. - Euripides

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

  3. 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. - Emery Allen

  4. 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. - Bertolt Brecht

  5. 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. - Isobelle Carmody

More Quotes By Gabrielle Zevin
  1. Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink...

  2. You forget all of it anyway. First, you forget everything you learned-the dates of the Hay-Herran Treaty and Pythagorean Theorem. You especially forget everything you didn't really learn, but just memorized the night before. You forget the names of all but one or two of...

  3. I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.

  4. There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.

  5. A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

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