Bruised Quote by Elizabeth Helen

“For a moment I feel as though I exist outside of my body, as if I'm looking at myself from his perspective. I see…

— Tahereh Mafi

“There were moments in your life that brought you to your knees. Moments that punched the absolute fuck out of you. I was having…

— Nina Levine

“Sometimes when your world crashes down from above and you think there's no way to claw yourself out of the rubble of your life,…

— Olivia Cunning

“You've slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.”

— Maria V. Snyder

“and I’m thrown backward. I land on my left elbow, hear it crack. Pain splinters through me. A Scavenger looms over me. Impossible to…

— Lauren Oliver

“On the street, men appeared to me like mad ghosts, old skeletons out of joint, whose bones, badly strung together, were falling to the…

— Octave Mirbeau

“ To Hear the Falling World Only if I move my arm a certain way, it comes back. Or the way the light bends…

— Jane Hirshfield

“Even when you find yourself knocked down, bruised and broken, you get up and go another round.”

— Kyna Bryn

“I crouch hidden among the boulders, my body broken and bloodied. Below me, someone is about to murder my best friend, the one person…

— Rae Carson

“I dropped the blood-coated chair leg and collapsed to my knees. I couldn’t swallow. I couldn’t breathe. I was splattered with blood. I’d never…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“When you move so quickly from innocence to a world of fear, pain and loss, it's as if the flesh of your heart and…

— Leymah Gbowee

“You took life by the horns and tried to hold on tight, for fear of being ripped to shreds, left bloodied and battered.”

— Holly Hood