Old secrets are like old wounds; they fester.

“She was surprised that her hands had not forgotten, that somewhere in her mind, after a year of darkness and slavery, music was still…

— Sarah J. Maas

“Old wounds heal within, because of moha (infatuation due to illusion). Otherwise, one would be overcome by dispassion for the worldly life (vairagya).”

— Dada Bhagwan

“That goes for old wounds, too, you know. I really wish we'd had the chance to talk before this," he says, cracking the window…

— Laura Wiess

Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.

— Lance Armstrong

“I want you to learn that if you don't keep picking at old wounds, over time they will eventually heal. Oh sure, sometimes they…

— K. Martin Beckner

“Lane closed her eyes and pressed her lips together at the sound of the nickname, a thousand memories whirling through her mind. He hadn’t…

— Courtney Walsh

“Honest communication is open, healing new and old wounds.”

— Marie Clair

Time, and the grand gesture of forgiveness, helps to heal old wounds.

— Edward Kowalczyk

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

— Kristin Cashore

Its better to stay away than reopening old wounds.

— Anonymous

You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people. But until you heal the wounds of your past, you are…

— Iyanla Vanzant

Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in…

— Marquis de Sade

“I’d pieced my heart back together and salvaged what little dignity I had left by jumping back in the saddle with a man safer…

— Jodi Linton

“Okay, here it goes--bread, so you’ll never go hungry; a broom, so you can sweep away evil; a candle, so you’ll always have light;…

— Aimee Pitta

True love can heal old wounds

— Iain Taylor