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  1. Elizabeth Gilbert _ City of Girls

    When we are young, Angela, we may fall victim to the misconception that time will heal all wounds and that eventually everything will shake itself out. But as we get older, we learn this sad truth: some things can never be fixed. Some mistakes can never be put right - not by the passage of time, and not by our most fervent wishes, either. In my experience, this is the hardest lesson of them all.
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  2. J.K. Rowling _ Harry Potter and the Order of

    Some wounds run too deep for the healing.
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  3. Beth Revis _ The Body Electric

    I have no emotions. I just stand there, in the rubble of my life. This… this was my home. If it were a person, this would be a gaping chest wound, the kind no one can recover from.
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  4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

    I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart.
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  5. bell hooks _ All About Love: New Visions

    As more people have found the courage to break through shame and speak about woundedness in their lives, we are now subjected to a mean-spirited cultural response, where all talk of woundedness is mocked. The belittling of anyone's attempt to name a context within which they were wounded, were made a victim, is a form of shaming. It is psychological terrorism. Shaming breaks our hearts. All individuals who are genuinely seeking well-being within a healing context realize that it is important to that process not to make being a victim a stance of pride or a location from which to simply blame others. We need to speak our shame and our pain courageously in order to recover. Addressing woundedness is not about blaming others; however, it does allow individuals who have been, and are, hurt to insist on accountability and responsibility both from themselves and from those who were the agents of their suffering as well as those who bore witness. Constructive confrontation aids our healing.
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  6. Jeanette Winterson _ Why Be Happy When You Could Be

    You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return. And the wound will take you there.
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  7. Ryū Murakami _ Audition

    But sometimes things happen that no one hopes for. Events that cause everything you've worked towards, the life you've carefully constructed piece by piece, to come tumbling down all around you. No one is to blame, but you're left with a wound you can't heal on your own and can't believe you'll ever learn to accept, so you struggle to escape the pain. Only time can heal wounds as deep as that - a lot of time - and all you can really do is place yourself in its hands and try to consider the passing of each day a victory. You tough it out moment by moment, hour by hour, and after some weeks or months you begin to see signs of recovery. Slowly the wound heals into a scar.
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  8. Euripides _ Medea

    Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
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  9. Wallace Stegner _ The Spectator Bird

    The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
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  10. Wallace Stegner _ The Spectator Bird

    Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus."
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  11. Jodi Picoult _ The Pact

    Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting.
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  12. Patrick O'Brian _ The Letter of Marque

    {Babbington} "What did {the Doctor, Stephen} do to you, sir?"{Captain Aubrey} "Well, I am ashamed to say he took a pistol-ball out of the small of my back. It must have been when I turned to hail for more hands- thank God I did not. At the time I thought it was one of those vile horses that were capering about abaft the wheel.""Oh, sir, surely a horse would never have fired off a pistol?
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