Quote by Stephanie Powell Watts

“Everyone has wounds; everyone pretends they don’t.”

— Beth Revis

“Some wounds are permanent; you know that as well as I do. And the worst ones are invisible.”

— Blake Northcott

“Shut up in public those bloody private wounds.”

— Sylvia Plath

“I'm sorry to disappoint you, but my experience belongs to me, not the collective bloody unconscious.”

— Ian McEwan

“I’ve been forced to look at my guiltiest secrets. I’ve cut myself wide open. I am exposed. That is not comfortable. That is not…

— Roxane Gay

“There's some wounds that run too deep to be seen. They're the most dangerous.”

— Moira Young

“The look in her eyes told me that under any other circumstances, I would either already be naked with her on top of me,…

— Christina Lauren

“I hid my wounds because I was ashamed...but now I know that I was also afraid of being reduced..”

— Anna Quindlen

“I wonder if this is how people get close: They heal each other's wounds.”

— Lauren Oliver

“Our deepest wounds are often invisible.”

— Laurie E. Smith

“I keep thinking that if I could just unzip my skin, step out of this body, then I would see who I really am.”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“I hid my wound under my clothes. Nobody could see it, including myself, and I completely forgot about it. Then I met someone who,…

— Franco Santoro