But shame is like a wound that is never exposed and…

“And I Said To My Soul, Be Loud Madden me back to an afternoon I carry in me not like a wound but like…

— Christian Wiman

“Because, when I was away, I couldn't stop thinking about you. Part of me said, yes, it was the right thing to do, for…

— Juliet Marillier

“Someone once told me that grief is like any wound, it needs time to heal. Thing is, it's not a scab on your knee,…

— Bella Osborne

“I live with pain that is like a wound; if you touch me, you will do me irreparable harm. Your caresses enfold me, like…

— Pablo Neruda

“I was alive. But I was alive without a memory, without a name; I was cut off from hope as well as from remorse…

— Henry Miller

If you fight sex, sex becomes the center. Then, continuously, you are engaged in it, occupied with it. It becomes like a wound. And…

— Rajneesh

n the dark everyone felt the same: the edges blurred. When I think of myself then, what I was like two years ago, I…

— Sarah Dessen

A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.

— Nellie L. McClung

“...and I was thinking of what it would be like to have such a wound, to lift up the bottom of my shirt at…

— Evan Dara

Like a flower to its perfume, I am bound to My vague memory of you. I live with pain That is like a wound;…

— Anonymous

“Dust dances in the light like tiny ghosts of stories. I open a yellowed page— your handwriting from another lifetime. The shopkeeper pretends not…

— Avijeet Das

She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

— Mitch Albom

It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you’re alone. It feels less like a wound, more…

— Jodi Picoult

“But shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.”

— Salman Rushdie

Nothing spells shame like living what feels like a double life.

— Angel Grant