“How can it be, I wondered, that we can be lying in bed next to a person we love wholly and helplessly, a person we love more than our own breath, and still ache to think of the one who caused us pain all those years ago? It's the betrayal of this second heart of ours, its flesh tied off like a fingertip twined tightly round with a single hair, blue-tinged from lack of blood. The shameful squeeze of it.”
![“[THE DAILY BREATH] Underneath the body of pain, is your heart of love. Underneath the clothing of hurt, is your naked forgiveness. Underneath the storms of worries and fear and guilt is the innocent glow of the Spirit of Love. Underneath all you think and feel you are, there You actually are: an…” quote by Dragos Bratasanu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fdc/dragos-bratasanu-13221_daily-inspiration_the-daily-breath-underneath-the-body-of_518521.jpg)
