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“I feel like a constellation of wounds, held together with string and stubbornness.”

— Holly Black

“Although the magnitude of my pain would scream otherwise, I cannot be so remiss as not to realize that my wounds are the precious…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

— Kristin Cashore

“There is a blinding flash, a pain that rips through me for one searing instant, a silent scream from my broken body. For the…

— Gayle Forman

“Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since…

— Charles Dickens

“This man, who’d rushed in to hold together all the splintering pieces of my world and forced them back together before they were completely…

— A.L. Jackson

“The more I understood what we were all made of, the more everyone I'd touched stayed inside me, still crying out, showing me their…

— Kawai Strong Washburn

“Somehow I know that eventually we'll fall back into step, so the pain is the low hum of detachment rather than the screaming stab…

— Cat Patrick

“He pulls my swaddled figure close to his chest and I shatter. Two three four fifty thousand pieces of feeling stab me in the…

— Tahereh Mafi

“I sit still and prepare for the Great Unravelling, but instead find further knots.”

— Martin Cosgrove

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.…

— Rumi

“We, too, can divide ourselves, it’s true. / But only into flesh and a broken whisper. / Into flesh and poetry.”

— Wisława Szymborska