I'm not talking about the scars that separate your skin, Parker. I'm not blind, I can see those. I'm talking about the scars much deeper than that. The scars that exist within you. The ones you...

It's been a long time since we both talked properly. I guess it's because many things went wrong between us and I know that now it's difficult to get back on the road.

In the process of my evolution, I became a victim of domestic war, an emotional casualty for a major portion of my life, entwined, entrapped and emotionally involved, until I learned how to become...

We are merely ghost flowers under the shade of the moon...

She hoped that Tin Win would learn what she had learned over the years: that there are wounds time does not heal, though it can reduce them to a manageable size.

I gave my heart to a man who loved me, who wanted to be with me. Who ultimately was afraid of all I offered. I didn't understand why he sabotaged our future at the time – cheating on me, again, as...

Sorrow eats time. Be patient. Time eats sorrow.

To fix hearts one must know one's own.

Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past.

Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?

Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that...

Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.

I see marriage as an operation that sews two people together, and divorce is a kind of amputation that can take a long time to heal. The longer you were married, or the rougher the amputation, the...

There's a part of me which has always wanted to hear a man say, "Let me take care of you forever," and I have never heard it spoken before. Over the last few years, I'd given up looking for that...

Our culture has the expectation that the memories of a happy childhood will somehow ground you and prepare you for adult life. But what about the memories that cut, that wound, that won't heal?

Truth be told, John said, the one thing in this world I want more than anything else is a great big crowbar, to jimmy myself open and take whatever creature that's sitting inside and shake it clean...