Scabs Quotes
22 quotes by 21 authors
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If you keep picking a scab it will bleed and never heal. If you keep dragging the pain of the past up, it will never…
— Leon Brown
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Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In…
— Michael Ayrton
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A sensitive person receives fifty impressions where somebody else may only get seven. Sensitive people are so vulnerable; they're so easily brutalized and hurt just…
— Marlon Brando
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Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts in new ways. We are…
— Jesmyn Ward
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Time can turn a scab into a beauty mark.
— Nia Vardalos
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Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers attach…
— Alberto Manguel
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The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.
— Henry Wotton
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Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds.…
— Janet Malcolm
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Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just like all men.…
— Elizabeth Smart
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The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you…
— Marlon Brando
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There was nothing I hated worse than clumps of whispering girls who got quiet when I passed. I started picking scabs off my body and,…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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I have a big hole in my heart," I said. "But it'll close over." I don't want to sound all Dr. Phil," she said. "But…
— Charlaine Harris
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The claws of Truth were painful. The lies tore away like scabs, and John bled there for hours, stifling his cries of pain in the…
— Frank Peretti
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One day I will forgive you; until then there are scabs everywhere that you have touched me.
— Salvador Plascencia
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Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distress. "Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in…
— Suzanne Collins
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Beneath this mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivilous: each…
— Cyril Connolly
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We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that hurt to hear, about gasping,…
— Kelly Corrigan
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I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long…
— Robin Hobb
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Your heart is not a wound to be poked at to see if the scab is ready to come off. You can be healed of…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt.
— Kristin Hannah
Who Wrote These Scabs Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 22 Scabs Quotes as follows: