Wounds are like water set to boil – they heal best left…

“In my opinion, wounds are like water boiled--they heal best left unwatched.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.

— Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

“Wounded animals heal best in their dens. You owe no one an apology for doing whatever it takes to survive.”

— Hailey Edwards

The people closest to us have the ability to hurt us the most and yet also have the ability to heal us the best.

— Anonymous

We are all wounded. But wounds are necessary for his healing light to enter into our beings. Without wounds and failure and frustrations and…

— Bo Sanchez

To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in…

— William Cowper

“Neither of them had learned, after two divorces, that people can’t be applied to wounds like gauze.”

— Christie Yant

“Some of us walk about with the burden of old wounds. What must it be like to have the burden of…healing?”

— Julie Anne Long

“Wounds like that... wounds to the heart... they leave ugly scars that never fade.”

— Belle Aurora

“That was our first real look, up close, at the war. Seeing blood and wounds like that hit hard and put pictures in our…

— Jim Proser

“room. “Glad to see you’re awake,” he said. “I was starting to think it was foolish to try and heal you without using blood—with…

— H.M. Ward

“Who knew there were still people like that in this world, though? Everybody wants to talk about themselves, and everybody wants to hear everybody…

— Ryu Murakami

“Patrick's entire front torso was covered with gruesome stab wounds. Like he'd been run through again and again with a sharp knife - and…

— Jess Rothenberg

“Always one of the trials of a new wound: old wounds like to rise up and start hurting again, too.”

— Kristin Cashore

“She just wanted to be left alone to lick her wounds, like a puppy that had been kicked repeatedly.”

— Sylvain Reynard