In a toxic, festering sort o' way...

Everything you do. Everything you say. Touches someone else. In some sort of way.

— Nishan Panwar

As with any other great force of nature, there is both glory and danger in the stories we tell ourselves. Some are toxic and…

— Dawna Markova

“Festering with regret changes not one thing.”

— Sally Koslow

The equation Bubble Tea = Something to Look Forward To depressurizes the misery of capitalism and is a Hello Kitty band-aid on the festering…

— Vanessa Veselka

For both the offender and the victim, the pain is there, often unacknowledged and that is when it can cause harm through festering. When…

— Desmond Tutu

What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to generation.

— Bruno Bettelheim

Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting…

— James Connolly

Earth, earthriding your merry-go-roundtoward extinction,right to the rootsthickening the oceans like gravy,festering in your caves,you are becoming a latrine.

— Anne Sexton

I always have a few ideas that are percolating, and then after I've finished a book and it's a year later, and things are…

— Colson Whitehead

That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps…

— Langston Hughes

Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadside—are the Night's…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Take it slowly. The deepest resentments are wrapped up in a lot of hurt and pain. We think we're protecting ourselves by not forgiving.…

— Howard Martin

The frustrations have been festering for 12 years because federal policy has forced immigration into this area with no programs to accommodate this thrust…

— Sharon Pratt Kelly

“One was smeared with chunks of festering lung where”

— Perrin Briar

I can't get divorced because I'm a Catholic. Catholics don't get divorced. They stay together through anger and hatred and festering misery, just like…

— Lenny Clarke